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2.1) Social effects of the industrial revolution According to Boyer (1990:25) the industrial revolution conveyed great riches to a lot of entrepreneurs who helped set it in motion. For the millions of labourers who crowded into new factories, however the industrial age also brought poverty and harsh living conditions. In time, changes would limit many of the worst abuses of the early industrial age in Europe and the Americans. As living standards increases/improves, people within all different…

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Industrial Revolution is: “The rapid development of industry in the late 18th and 19th centuries, brought about by the introduction of machinery. It was characterized by the use of steam power, the growth of factories and the mass production of manufactured goods”. It is obvious that a revolution, of any kind, is going to cause great changes to the pre-existing society, culture, and economy, the industrial revolution was no different. The resulting…

The film, Blood on the Mountain goes into the detail and hardships of the employees of various coal mines throughout West Virginia. It is made incredibly clear in this film that the coal miners lead a fairly unhealthy and abnormally short life, due to the line of work that they are in. There are multiple reasons as to why these workers are so unhealthy; however, the central reason is their job, and more so the environment of their job and the salary they earn. This concept was also noted by…

The industrial Revolution has the most far reaching changes in the history of humanity.It has altered our lives more than any development in the past thousands of years.There are some very important global influences of industrial revolution. It led people from countryside to towns and cities.But the growth of cities continued as industries continued to grow and by 2008 ,for the first time in the human history,more people in the world lived in cities than in rural areas.The industrial…

Discourses on migration have become extremely dominant in European political debates and among its population in the last 60 years as Europe faced great societal changes after World War II. These changes have caused by immense migration of workers within Europe but also from non-European, mainly from former colonies during the 1960s and 1970s. Now it is not anymore migration alone that contributes to discussions about cultural changes in Europe, but the children and grandchildren of the migrants…

The telephone, one of the most powerful inventions during the industrial revolution, which changed communication in a major scale. There was a huge problem surrounding us during the 19th century. Not being able to communicate in a matter of seconds incase of an emergency was a huge problem (“ Living with the telephone”). Science came up with a solution, the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell. The telephone was a phenomenal invention that helped individuals communicate with each other in…

The standard of living debate was tied in with the industrial revolution. This was a time of great change for England and the effects of this began to spread throughout the rest of the world. Not only were machines beginning to take over the agricultural life, an income was beginning to be flowed in and out through the people, instead of many bartering for goods and services. This change effected many people, some for the good, but for many it was not a change in their favor. The standard of…

Industrial revolution: The time period of 1760 to 1820 a changeover to new manufacturing processes took place and this era is known as industrial revolution. Production that was done by hands earlier was now done by machines. To improve the efficiency, quality and time of the work at hand, water power, steam power and machine tools were used. An increased usage of such things was to be seen. Coal was used in a large amount as well. The main and primary industry at the time…

Merchants, who in early times were viewed with suspicion, rose in the social scale. Small stores, each carrying its special line of goods, reached their peak in the 18th century. The wholesale business developed, and traveling salesmen and standard prices came into general use. In the United States the general store preceded the single-line store and is still common in small rural communities. In the late 19th century the department store came into being a large-scale general store or a…

and supervisors, in the form of petitions, strikes and marches that had took power against the horrid working conditions of that era. Lyddie, a novel written by Katherine Paterson is a memoir of a fictional character named Lyddie who works in a factory to repay her family's debt which takes place in the industrial revolution. Lyddie is 13-15 in the circumstances of the book, and she is hinted throughout the book to be the only provider for her family at the time. Lyddie is then thrown into…