Urbanization In The 18th Century

At the end of the 18th century the industrial revolution was still new, and there were still no law or any rules and regulations in controlling the operations of new industries. For example, there was no law on prohibiting employers from hiring a six year old child to work for ten hours a day or controlling the way factory owners dispose their commercial wastes. At that time, British were employing capitalism as a means to run their country’s economy; this means that their government would not play any role in regulating laws governing the new industries or planning any services for the towns because a free market had been created. Therefore, British society had become the first nation in showing how free market in capitalism actually worked. …show more content…
This is because urbanization has created many facilities such schools, hospitals, banks, post offices, accounting firms, law firms and shops, and in order to operate these facilities, professionals are needed to do those jobs. These professionals include business people, shopkeepers, teachers, accountants, doctors, lawyers and other specialists or experts to keep business running. These professionals are the people who earn a range of income which qualifies them to become middle class people. As more professions require less of physical abilities, more and more women can involve in taking up professions because women can use their intelligence to solve daily problems in urban areas. Not only do male need to work, many adult women are encouraged to work outside the home in order to support family expenses. Women usually worked as servants to cook or clean the house. They viewed professional success as the result of a person’s energy and hard work. The middle class saw huge advantages from urbanization. The growth of new businesses and factories had also increased a lot of job opportunities. Middle class people can lift themselves to a higher standard. As they can earn more, they afford to live in a better place with having enough food to eat and good quality clothes to wear; in brief, their buying power has get better. As they have improved their life, they will live longer and they are more resistant to diseases. They are also able to give their children better education so that they can maintain the social standing of their next generation. The emerging of middle class has improved the standard living of people life in health, education and other basic