There were a lot of problems that went unnoticed in the first industrial revolution problems socially as well as problems dealing with the way people went by working. A lot of people ended up unemployed because of the new sources and a lot of people barely worked due to the fact that a lot of factories didn’t need people to do the work anymore seeing as though steam and electricity came in the picture. Another improvement was that steel replaced iron and people then started using steel for many different construction pieces and projects. Steel made an even better way for rail lines to be created and built at a nice competitive cost. There was always a very huge space between the rich and the poor and as a lot of things continued to change the growth of the rich and poor continued. As we all have learned Britain played a major role in the first revolution as well as the second industrial revolution a lot of people looked at the British as being economic leaders to the world, but not for long the United States of America and Germany took the title as being the economic leaders of the world knocking the British off their feet just a little. The way people lived before the second industrial revolution was not that pleasing for a lot of people but they did what they could with the sources they had to survive, candles were used to get light and gas lamps where …show more content…
There was workers being underpaid and all working in factories that look like trash there was very terrible work conditions. The second industrial revolution not only impacted the world and society in a good way or in only one way, the second industrial revolution came with a lot of different benefits that where for the better and it had brought along some harmful ways that had a not so good impact on the world we live in. The second industrial revolution brought along immigration, a lot of businesses went to the top, railroads, as well as a lot of different