Imagine working from the age of six in a factory for twelve hours a day. That’s what you would be doing if you lived in the seventeenth century Britain or United States if you were a child. In today’s society we benefit from the Industrial Revolution, but forget about the people that made it possible. While some might argue that industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because of higher productivity, it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization’s negative effects were child labor, sickness, and bad living conditions.
The first negative effect of the Industrial Revolution is child labor. Industrialization affected many people’s lives, especially that of poor parents. Child labor was a real thing in the 1700’s that separated many children from their families to work in a factory. In the poem “My Boy” emphasized the separation in these lines, “A stranger I am to my child; And he one to me” (Document #2). …show more content…
Most people in the cities had it hard when it came to living, with polluted water, crowded houses, and open sewage. When the factories were built they started to throw waste into rivers polluting them, making people in the city suffer. In the image shown on Document #3 you can imagine how bad living was in the cities. With open sewage it made it easier for people to get sick from airborne diseases. Housing in the cities was rough; people had to live with up to ten people in a single room sharing four to as a single bed. The rich lived in large estates whereas the poor lived in tenements or on the streets. It wasn’t safe for children in tenements as shown in the image on Document #6 as the children hang from a fire escape on a third-story building. Although there are many general positive effects of the Industrial Revolution, there were many negative effects that affected families and children during the seventeenth to nineteenth
The first negative effect of the Industrial Revolution is child labor. Industrialization affected many people’s lives, especially that of poor parents. Child labor was a real thing in the 1700’s that separated many children from their families to work in a factory. In the poem “My Boy” emphasized the separation in these lines, “A stranger I am to my child; And he one to me” (Document #2). …show more content…
Most people in the cities had it hard when it came to living, with polluted water, crowded houses, and open sewage. When the factories were built they started to throw waste into rivers polluting them, making people in the city suffer. In the image shown on Document #3 you can imagine how bad living was in the cities. With open sewage it made it easier for people to get sick from airborne diseases. Housing in the cities was rough; people had to live with up to ten people in a single room sharing four to as a single bed. The rich lived in large estates whereas the poor lived in tenements or on the streets. It wasn’t safe for children in tenements as shown in the image on Document #6 as the children hang from a fire escape on a third-story building. Although there are many general positive effects of the Industrial Revolution, there were many negative effects that affected families and children during the seventeenth to nineteenth