The Industrial Revolution was an era of new developments in technology and machinery. These new innovative ideas helped improve production and trade. Prior to the Industrial revolution, people were accustomed to a certain lifestyle. Men would go to work and women would take care of the house, finances, and children. However, with these groundbreaking inventions, men, women, and children were also introduced to new struggles. Families worked and lived in poor working conditions that exhausted them and put their health at risk. James Phillips Kay, Friedrich Engels, and Robert Owen helped describe the hardships and despair the people were facing during this time period.
James Phillips Kay, a physician who practiced medicine in Manchester, England, discussed the struggles the working class was facing during the Industrial Revolution. In his work, Moral and Physical Dissipation, Kay discussed how men, women, and children were all facing negative effects of industrialization. Since women and children were put to work, they no longer had the energy to enjoy the fathers free time when he got home from work. Not only were the women and children getting over worked, but they were also underpaid. Therefore, families were then facing dissipation of energy and money. In addition, Kay stated, “[The people] are engaged in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies.” This adds on to the lack of energy the people were already facing. They were drained during the work day and were never fully able to restore the energy needed for the day ahead of them. All in all, Kay proclaimed that the work that was needed for the people to fuel the Industrial Revolution was impractical and unjust. Because of the urbanization brought forth by the Industrial Revolution, the people in cities were faced with dirty lifestyles and hazardous conditions due to the fact that they were all packed tightly into overcrowded areas. Friedrich Engels, a German intellectual and son of an affluent German manufacturer, discussed the unhealthy effects the Industrial Revolution had on Manchester in his writing Industrial Manchester. He described the overcrowded areas by asserting, “ Below the bridge you look upon the piles of debris, the refuse, filth, and offal from the courts on the steep left bank; here each house is packed close behind its neighbour and a piece of each is visible, all black, smoky, crumbling, ancient, with broken panes and window frames.” People were unable to live in private, secluded areas …show more content…
Additionally, with the creation of machines during the Industrial Revolution, the work done by the people was losing value. People were beginning to lose their jobs because machines were replacing them. Therefore, families were faced with the hardships of being either underpaid or unemployed. However, Owens proclaimed that although the poor were “to remain under the circumstances in which they have hitherto existed,” their children have the opportunity to get out of the lifestyle they are in. Through education, children would be able to make something better of them and ensure a change for their future. All things considered, Owens exclaimed how machinery was impacting the lives of the people during the Industrial Revolution and how education would help benefit
James Phillips Kay, a physician who practiced medicine in Manchester, England, discussed the struggles the working class was facing during the Industrial Revolution. In his work, Moral and Physical Dissipation, Kay discussed how men, women, and children were all facing negative effects of industrialization. Since women and children were put to work, they no longer had the energy to enjoy the fathers free time when he got home from work. Not only were the women and children getting over worked, but they were also underpaid. Therefore, families were then facing dissipation of energy and money. In addition, Kay stated, “[The people] are engaged in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies.” This adds on to the lack of energy the people were already facing. They were drained during the work day and were never fully able to restore the energy needed for the day ahead of them. All in all, Kay proclaimed that the work that was needed for the people to fuel the Industrial Revolution was impractical and unjust. Because of the urbanization brought forth by the Industrial Revolution, the people in cities were faced with dirty lifestyles and hazardous conditions due to the fact that they were all packed tightly into overcrowded areas. Friedrich Engels, a German intellectual and son of an affluent German manufacturer, discussed the unhealthy effects the Industrial Revolution had on Manchester in his writing Industrial Manchester. He described the overcrowded areas by asserting, “ Below the bridge you look upon the piles of debris, the refuse, filth, and offal from the courts on the steep left bank; here each house is packed close behind its neighbour and a piece of each is visible, all black, smoky, crumbling, ancient, with broken panes and window frames.” People were unable to live in private, secluded areas …show more content…
Additionally, with the creation of machines during the Industrial Revolution, the work done by the people was losing value. People were beginning to lose their jobs because machines were replacing them. Therefore, families were faced with the hardships of being either underpaid or unemployed. However, Owens proclaimed that although the poor were “to remain under the circumstances in which they have hitherto existed,” their children have the opportunity to get out of the lifestyle they are in. Through education, children would be able to make something better of them and ensure a change for their future. All things considered, Owens exclaimed how machinery was impacting the lives of the people during the Industrial Revolution and how education would help benefit