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    The Industrial Revolution was a time period characterized by sustained economic and technological development. Every time period, however, has it’s imperfections. The work life of all social classes of people deteriorated and benefitted throughout the region. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools and…

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    Labor in the industrial/gilded age was severely harsh and the workers were not treated how they should have been. The first thing that had been used as child labor which they were 16 or less. Second, you had long hours with very little pay, where they even had pay cuts even though they already had the small pay. Third, the working condition was very dangerous and caused a lot of deaths a year. First, in the industrial age, the labor had soared increasing the amount of even child labor that…

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    reason I said the industrial revolution had a positive affect. Cause it top kid from working in factory and because of that kid today are in school. Before the industrial revolution work in factory, kid like Cooper. Cooper first start working in the mills when Cooper was ten years old. Where she work is not good place for anyone to work because they had to work 16 hours and they only get one period of 40 minutes. Also at time they were frequently strapped (whipped). This is oney of my reason i…

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    Industrial Revolution Dbq

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    The industrial revolution of the 18th century is one of the factors that empowered and sustained British hegemony till World War I. it is remembered as the period of Britain’s economic dominance and along with it was the largest empire in modern history, transcending all through the 7 continents of the world. However, contrary to popular belief, or Eurocentric learning of history, such development that can be perceived as “revolutionary” occurred centuries before the famed Industrial Revolution.…

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    ART REVIEW: ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS ONLINE GALLERY The Industrial Revolution Is Bad!!! Introduction This article is about how the industrial revolution was bad. It will be surrounded by how the domestic system, the women and children and etc were terrible! There are many reasons why we believe that what is going on right now is just down right stupid. These are the reasons why we think this is terrible. Article Body In this time we live in if you haven't noticed, we are doing things that are…

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    the struggle Richard Abernathy went through as a child. In the story it states, “Richard was struggling to repair a machine and had accidentally broken it beyond repair. The cotton mill owner was so frustrated with Richard that he tightened a heavy weight around Richard's neck and forced him to walk around the mill for an hour…. This happened so often that Richard had developed neck problems by the age of ten” (paragraph 3 ). This shows that when he did something wrong it would be setting an…

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    Child labor was a huge situation in Britain's past and even America's past. The title of the Documentary “The Children Who Built Victorian Britain” really explains a huge part of the Documentary. In the documentary I learned three things that I did not know about or even thought about what can happen to those children. When I heard about child labor in my earlier years of school, I thought of like small chores, for example, picking up trash or cleaning the bathroom. I did not know that back then…

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    During the industrial revolution transitioned from farm life into a more urbanized life because people no longer needed to have large amounts of land to live. The industrial revolution led to a new inability to provide or make a craft and by breeding factory workers who new how to make parts as opposed to products you are reducing potential competition threats. Workers began to form unions in order to represent the masses. The gap between the upper and lower classes also widened because there…

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    Life In The 1900's Essay

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    Take a step back in time, and picture young children, no older than 10 working in the dangerous smoke filled mines, their lungs being filled with the thick horrid fumes, or a little girl working a big sewing machine, one that with any tiny mistake could leave her hand scared, and maybe even broken. Children in tattered clothes, working jobs that even adults would find wearisome. Working long hours, every day for mere pennies. Today it would be hard to believe that this could ever have occurred,…

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    Although the Industrial Revolution did turn the world around with its inventions and ideas, it brought the struggle to survive too many. Society changed within this period; the working class was those whom would work to bring availability of the products to others places. This social class would also suffer more than those of the middle class. They ended up living in filthy areas, cramped, with the view of a gray sky. They had harsh working conditions and women were mostly employed. The…

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