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    which brought technological advancements outside of it’s own category were agriculture innovations. Both the cotton gin and the McCormick reaper increased the productivity of agricultural work, and because of this there were less workers needed. “By reducing the number of workers needed, such new agricultural machines helped send displaced laborers to work on railroads and in textile mills, iron foundries, shoe factories, coal mines, oil fields, and other new industries in towns and…

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    Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain during the 18th century where it had great deposits of coal and iron ore that proves essential for industrialization. Britain’s abundance in textile, iron, and cotton led to a serious of innovations to make labor more efficient and productive. The textile and cotton industries along with the development of steam engine, railroad and locomotives helped create the first ever Industrial Revolution. By the end of the 19th century, Great Britain acquired…

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    Birley ,who worked at a cotton mill since the age of 5, it is displayed he suffered perpetually. He recalled the moment when “Frank once beat [him] till he frightened himself. He thought he killed [him]”. Birley’s words simply show the cruel pain children had to endure in many factories. He was beaten until he was close to death. Not only were factories full of cruel treatment , but full of unsanitary conditions for the laborers.…

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    Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution happen in Western Europe in the 1700s and was a huge deal Technologically. It affected the world a lot in the long road with technology, but also had major consequences at the time to do all what they did. Although this event has been titled a revolution, the question is whether the Industrial revolution was truly a revolution. For the purposes of this paper, the term revolution will be defined as a sudden, radical change for the positive.…

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    chamber to condense steam, which meant the machine could be active at all times. It had a huge impact on employment in Great Britain, then to the rest of world. The factory started using mills and factories replaced people that had jobs by creating with their hand. Middle class people usually worked in factories, mills, and transportation hubs, and enjoyed the improvement in their life. They worked less since there were machines. But some factories labored at low wages and made people work for…

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    Before the Industrial Revolution, the family economy ruled the family. The family was the unit of production and consumption. The family economy meant that men and women did production in fields, or they worked in small local shops. Goods were produced in the city. Families did not have to travel far for items and they produced most of what they needed right from the home. The men and women worked during the day while the children would play in the fields and help every once in a while. However,…

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    resulted in an increase in factory jobs. The switch from the domestic system to factory system really sparked the revolution. “In 1793, when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, thereby allowing massive amount of cotton to be quickly processed in the Americas and exported to Europe, the textile industry was taken out of the homes and into the mills entirely. Which made the factory system profit, but it came with a social cost.” (Armstrong, Monty, David…

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    Industrial Revolution “The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.”(Stephen Gardiner) First of all, right of the Industrial revolution, there is a pre-industrial era and it was the age before machines help people to perform in task. The social classes of British society are divided into peasants and lords. Agricultural economy basically plays an important role in the country. Due to the absent of machines and tools during that time,…

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    The Industrial Revolution was a period of industrial growth during the late 1700s and early 1800s. This period of industrialization began in England but then spread to other areas of the world. The Industrial Revolution is such a significant period of history because machines were created that could do the work that people originally did. Before the revolution, England was a collection of rural communities that revolved around farming. From 1700 to 1750, Britain’s population had relatively no…

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    the Factory Inquiry Commission reporting that the children had gotten beaten by older males that watched over the mills (Document 10). Not only were the females treated inhumanely but there was no mercy, and younger kids had also gotten abused. Child abuse had been viewed as cruel, and it showed how merciless the owners of the factories were. In related circumstances, the Japanese mill workers had been handled in poor manners as well. In a survey entitled Japanese Silk Worker Survey, 580 women…

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