Fun fact: Prior to the 1800s, there was no mass production, large-scale industries, factory systems, or machine manufacturing. This was all the outcome of industrialization, but was it worth it? The Industrial Revolution was a period in the 1700s when new machinery and techniques were introduced, transforming rural societies into industrialized urban ones with the construction of new factories and mills and the employment of thousands of workers. During the industrial revolution, resources moved from being created at home by hand to large-scale factories. There are benefits and harms to industrialization. The benefits of the Industrial Revolution do not outweigh the harms because it is bad for the environment, dangerous for the children, and unfair to the
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He says the whole city is filled with steam and smoke and houses and streets are discolored. Not only did it pollute the environment, but it ruined the coloring of houses and appearance of them. An illustration of the Boott Cotton Mills in the 1850s, compared to an image of the Textile Mills in Lowell in 1910 shows how cities have turned from simple and rural cities, to overcrowded cities full of steam and smoke. (Doc P) This evidence on the harms to the environment helps determine how the benefits of the Industrial Revolution do not exceed the harms because it reveals how as factories began to be more complex it ruined the appearance and cleanliness of these urban environments, along with polluting them and ruining the cities overall. The harms of industrialization also outweigh the benefits because of the dangers of working in the factory. In 1912, Lewis Hine, an American photographer, wrote about a young mill worker, Giles Edmund Newsom, who smashed his toe and tore out 2 fingers while working in the Sanders Spinning Mill in North Carolina (Doc
He says the whole city is filled with steam and smoke and houses and streets are discolored. Not only did it pollute the environment, but it ruined the coloring of houses and appearance of them. An illustration of the Boott Cotton Mills in the 1850s, compared to an image of the Textile Mills in Lowell in 1910 shows how cities have turned from simple and rural cities, to overcrowded cities full of steam and smoke. (Doc P) This evidence on the harms to the environment helps determine how the benefits of the Industrial Revolution do not exceed the harms because it reveals how as factories began to be more complex it ruined the appearance and cleanliness of these urban environments, along with polluting them and ruining the cities overall. The harms of industrialization also outweigh the benefits because of the dangers of working in the factory. In 1912, Lewis Hine, an American photographer, wrote about a young mill worker, Giles Edmund Newsom, who smashed his toe and tore out 2 fingers while working in the Sanders Spinning Mill in North Carolina (Doc