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Many European countries have followed the “British Model of industrialization which is the sequence of coal, metals, textiles, and mechanical engineering as a path to industrial development.”1
The British benefited from its already well established market economy, its “accumulation and concentration of capital as well as the …show more content…
Life changed dramatically for those people who decided to move to a city to find work. Before the industrial revolution, most people were involved in agriculture work, where the family functioned as one to complete the tasks of daily living. Life for a factory worker was much different. They would work up to 14 hr ours a day, with few breaks. They made only minimum wages meaning that each member of the family, starting from an early age, would have to get a factory job to help the family survive. The conditions of the factories were hazardous to all the employees, many of which were injured.
The industrial revolution had an impact of most aspects of people’s lives. It affected the way in which countries do business and it gave growth to new advanced ideas. For those who worked in the factories, their every day life changed drastically. This was a major event in our history that has helped to shape us into what we are today.
Notes
1. Bruland, Kristine, British Technology and European Industrialization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 3.
2. Kemp, Tom. Industrialization in the Non-Western World. (New York: Longman Group Limited, 1983), 4.
3. Kemp, Industrialization in the Non-Western World,
The British benefited from its already well established market economy, its “accumulation and concentration of capital as well as the …show more content…
Life changed dramatically for those people who decided to move to a city to find work. Before the industrial revolution, most people were involved in agriculture work, where the family functioned as one to complete the tasks of daily living. Life for a factory worker was much different. They would work up to 14 hr ours a day, with few breaks. They made only minimum wages meaning that each member of the family, starting from an early age, would have to get a factory job to help the family survive. The conditions of the factories were hazardous to all the employees, many of which were injured.
The industrial revolution had an impact of most aspects of people’s lives. It affected the way in which countries do business and it gave growth to new advanced ideas. For those who worked in the factories, their every day life changed drastically. This was a major event in our history that has helped to shape us into what we are today.
Notes
1. Bruland, Kristine, British Technology and European Industrialization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 3.
2. Kemp, Tom. Industrialization in the Non-Western World. (New York: Longman Group Limited, 1983), 4.
3. Kemp, Industrialization in the Non-Western World,