Technology During The Industrial Revolution

Does technology always change are lives for the better? I think that technology has some good effects, but I think that technology is not always for the better. Technology can be dangerous, for example machines are very dangerous, and machines are technology that is used every day in lives back then and lives now. If you were to go back in history and compare the positive and negative facts about the Industrial Revolution, you would see it has mostly a negative impact because, there was bab labor, bad pollution, and child abuse in factories.

Labor conditions during the industrial revolution negatively impacted society. In the Industrial Revolution workers got fired for no reason, they were not protected in factories. The machines were very dangerous even deadly!! The factorie were very unhealthy and had bad sanitation. Workers had to work long hours for low wages. Women and children had to work in hard conditions, and most of the time children were not dressed safe and would get bad …show more content…
Factor system in early times were not restricted or regulated, and caused environmental damage. Back then there was a lot of pollution in the air, also toxic, and acids filled the air. Waterways were filled with remains from the factories, many were permanently affected/ damaged by the pollution. Factories were not just unhealthy they were abusive to children.

The next example of how the Industrial Revolution negatively impacted society is child abuse in factories. Children got hard, dangerous jobs. The working conditions were unhealthy. Children had to work long hours, and got paid low wages. The children had NO rights in the factories. The children were often abused, and would get neglected. Since they had to work long hours they would sometimes get tired, and if the factory owners saw them getting tired the children would be beaten, or hit, so they would stay on task and keep