Industrial Revolution And Capitalism In The 19th Century

The Industrial Revolution started in the late 18th century, it brought many changes to societies that experienced the making of the industrialized world. Throughout the 19th century cities in Europe and America became industrial and urban through the creation of machinery. As a result of the industrialized cities it created two new classes, which were the working class and the middle class. With the influence of the industrial revolution, capitalism was founded. Capitalism has been defined as an economic system with privately owned productions such as factories, to market goods to determine the way in which these goods are produced to decide which incomes and profits are distributed. These two groups were very different, as for the working class they do what the system sets out for them and …show more content…
In an interview with Matthew Crabtree, Sadler asked him several questions regarding his experiences working in the mill, he pointed out several disturbing things that went on while working in the factories. Salder asked “What was the consequences if you had been late” and he replied “I was most commonly beaten”.(Salder,Crabtree,pg3) Matthew was only eight years of age working fourteen hours and only getting paid a penny. People started to quickly question capitalism because to them it seemed to only benefit the wealthy. After a while Industrial Capitalism became exposed by massive inequality between the working and middle class people. Soon after became the birth of Socialism, they argued that production must be operated by the people who did the work. Socialism movement in the mid. 19th century messed with the system but didn’t change it. This created trade unions inside the work space and the cooperative movements with Robert Owens. Karl Marx viewed this as a dehumanization of workers and a stepping stone towards another