Industrial Revolution Impact

The Industrial Revolution Impacts The Industrial Revolution was one of the biggest developments of humans from the way goods were produced to the use of human labor. During this moment of history, impactful inventions such as the steam engine were made in the benefit of the middle class and the businessmen of Europe, especially in England. Although these developments and inventions benefitted some, it ruined the lives of those in the lower classes. As more inventions for developing goods began to be made, production of these goods began to move away from homes and more towards factories in the cities thus beginning an increase in urbanization. But the population migration was huge in amounts and in such a small time as it was estimated …show more content…
By 1801, the year of the first census, it was 9.3 million and by 1841, 15.9 million” (C N Trueman "Life In Industrial Towns" historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 31 Mar 2015. 16 Aug 2016). As more factories developed and businessmen began to take a rise, the old class system of nobles, clergies, and commoners was demolished to be replaced by a new class system consisting of the working class and the middle class/bourgeoisie. Entrepreneurs and businessmen also began to have a huge rise in power and wanting to keep that power, they began to ally themselves with schools and churches. In this way, they can feed ideas to the masses that factory work is the best type of work. And because the working class were living in such harsh conditions, most of their faith relied in religion especially in Methodism (religion that focused on forgiveness and a better life). It also didn’t help that many businessmen wanting more goods …show more content…
For starters, there was a whole new production shift as “economic activities in many communities moved from agriculture to manufacturing, production shifted from its traditional locations in the home and the small workshop to factories” (“Economic Changes during Industrial Revolution” http://schoolworkhelper.net/economic-changes-during-industrial-revolution/). Also, the number of goods and services produced expanded dramatically as the development of factories led to things being made extremely quickly. During this time, more food could be made which led to healthier people and a higher population. And with this high population came for high demand in these products. What also resulted from this growing population was a growing labour force. But because there were no legislations or laws, the working class never benefitted from these new economic changes. Employers would pay their workers extremely low wages to work extremely long hours. This resulted in the working class living in the slums and with other families in tenants in extremely small