Factory life during the industrial revolution

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    The Industrial Revolution greatly affected many different areas around the world. While the Americas and Europe were the first nations to come about an Industrial Revolution, many other countries soon followed their model. Regardless of the time in which the nation underwent their Industrial Revolution, each nation was transformed economically, socially, and politically. During the Industrial Revolution, many economic activities in American and European communities moved from agriculture to…

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    The Industrial Revolution is the time period of change where manufactured goods replaced handmade goods. It started in England during the 1800s and moved across to America. They soon realized that the machines were more efficient and new inventions allowed an increase to the amount of machines used. More and more factories began opening up all across England and America. Although, there were some positive and negative effects on America. The Industrial Revolution caused positive effects on…

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    initiated the Industrial Revolution. This revolution greatly increased the production of goods and made working in factory more efficient, and it turned Britain from an agriculture society to an industrial society. The Industrial Revolution also had a wide range of both positive and negative effects in which it affected the social and economic life of people live in England. These outcomes have been taken in and evaluated by numerous perspectives such as factory owners, the governors, factory…

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    Well known as the Industrial Revolution, an unprecedented advance in the efficiency of manufacturing occurred in England in the late eighteenth century. It spread to other parts of Europe and the United States in the second half of the nineteenth century and brought enormous change to humans’ life. Largely a result of technology improvement and mass production, industrialization stimulated a surge in production of manufactured goods, which largely enriched people’s material life. It also…

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    Dissecting the consequences of the Industrial Revolution is no small task. In inspecting, what marvelous convenience in mass agriculture and manufacturing afforded humanity, there are also after-effects to the regularly understood conventional morals and family structure that had developed in English and European societies. One of the many questions asked about the consequences of the Industrial Revolution is did the innovation that industry created lead to the deterioration of sexual values in…

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    European Industrial Revolution was a time of drastic change. In England it became a transformation from hand tools and handmade items to machined and mass-produced goods. The growth of factories replaced the cottage industries and spawned the development of cities. Growing cities and factories led to changes in transportation, labor, and working conditions. These changes generally helped workers lives, even though initially there were more negatives than positives. Before the Industrial…

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    Although the Industrial Revolution had many negative effects such as child labor and poor living and working conditions, the overall long term benefits of urbanization, and the advancement of new technology outweighed the negative. Throughout the Industrial Revolution, which took place between the years 1750-1914, there was a lot of change and growth in America and Europe. Inventions in the area of machinery, and manufacturing and producing goods were created which help us today. Due to…

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    negative aspects; child labor and pollution were major problems during the Industrial Revolution. Despite this, many positive consequences arose after and during the movement. While some historians may argue that industrialization had primarily negative consequences on society, the movement had many more positive aspects, including new forms of technology, more jobs, and improved methods of transportation. The Industrial Revolution brought multiple waves of technological introductions to the…

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    Without the Industrial Revolution, the United States would not be such a powerful nation. The Industrial Resolution was a metamorphosis in the way the U.S.A. manufactured goods and how people made their income. The revolution took the people of that day from the horse and buggy to the engine powered automobile we know today. It helped grow this nation and make it strong, but most importantly, it changed this world completely and permanently. Some argue that the industrial revolution was a bad…

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    Life in this period has been described as “years of suffering and deprivation, as that “bleak age” in which the “evils of the Industrial Revolution” made themselves manifest”. However, this cold and unjust period gradually came to an end with the intervention of the government and implementation of new legislations that gave workers rights and privileges in their workplaces. The Coal Mines Act of 1842, for example, was passed to ensure that in coal mines “no female was to be employed…

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