06+Summarize+the+social+and+economic+impact+of+the+Industrial+Revolution

** A. the vast increases in productivity and wealth: ** The industrial revolution brought forth many social changes but the largest was the distinquishing of lower (or working) classes and the upper class.
 * Summarize the social and economic impact of the Industrial Revolution (103-4, 148-151):**

With the industrial revolution, products could be made much faster and in more quantities. This allowed more of the product to be sold, which made the factory owners wealthy. It increased the standard of living, along with the life expectancy, as more people could afford and acess better health care. Goods could be produced at a much faster rate, and often the country with more factories and production was the more successful country. Because of the Industrial Revolution, new things were made and the old products were made faster and able to be made in more quantity. As more things were sold, the owners of the factory grew weathly.

With the industrial revolution, it was much faster to produce cloth with a machine rather than doing it by hand.

Due to the Industrial Revolution, new technologies made it possible to produce goods at a much faster rate and with a much better quality to increase profits.

The number of wealthy families grew along with the number of people coming to cities to work in factories. The wealthy made their money because of the increasing number of things being made in a minimum time.

With the productive growt of techonology such as steam allows inventions such as trains which led to faster transportaion of products which allows business to gain profit. The railroad tracks were easily made and was cheap so it was produced in great sums.

During the Industrial Revolution productivity and wealth grew at an accelerated rate. As time passed and Industrialization spread across Europe and America, the demand for manufactured goods increased. Poor people looking for jobs moved into cities and worked in large factories on the machines where the products were made. As the work force grew, more products were made. The workers received a low wage so the owners of the factories became extremely wealthy. The Industrial Revolution resulted in the creation of the middle class.

With the Industrial Revolution many adults, as well as young children left to work in the mills. Products were produced at a faster rate than before with the new inventions and the cheap cost of labor.

The industrial revoulution increased productivity and wealth because with the addition of factories and inventions such as water frames the rate in which materials increased was uncomparable to the rate that it was done by hand. Also it increased wealth because it allowed more people to work and make money. ** B. population and urban growth: ** During the 19th century, both the living conditions and health care improved. As a result, Britain's population doubled every 50 years, this led to overpopulation. According to Robert Hughes in //The Fatal Shore//, the population of England and Wales, which had remained steady at 6 million from 1700 to 1740, rose dramatically after 1740.

The industrial revolution made small towns along major waterways into bustling cities very quickly. This led to massive overpopulation and very bad living conditions in those new cities. It also led to a-lot of pollution in the waterways and smog pollution in the air over much of Europe. The death rate decreased and agriculture in villages grew more intensive and produced more raw materials.

The increasing population led to more workers in the factories thus creating urbanized cities with more factories, houses, and city like buildings.

New farming technologies led to faster and better food production. People ate better and were healthier, living longer. Healthier woman gave birth to healthier, stronger children that lived for a longer time.

Population issues were bad due to needs of money, on top of that factories often pollute the air and water making an unhealthy environment. Also sewage and waste was not supervised much leading to dysentary and other diseases. Pollutants such as smoke from trains and factories, or dumped material.

The Industrial Revolution was caused by a major population growth. In the 17th century an Agricultural Revolution in Britain occurred when new technologies and better growth techniques caused an increase in population. These new technologies increased agricultural productivity and prevented famine. The population grew not because of a growing birth rate, but because of a declining death rate.

The industrial revolution is the name given to changes occurring in the economy and society of Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, changes which, in different forms, have since spread to many other parts of the globe.

Because of the Agricultural Revolution and all the better and healthier food, the death rates declined. This caused an extreme rise in population. Also, people became more sanitary and times improved for the better.

** C. the growth of a middle class: ** More lower paying jobs were made as a product of the mills, because they could not afford to pay everyone a lot, many people were payed little. This made a growth in the 2 lower classes (consisting of lower or working class and middle class).

The middle class grew from the inventors and artisans who were the heads of wealthy factories and benefited from the profits of the Industrial Revolution. It led to more production in cities, and more people moved from the surrounding highlands to the cities in search of wealth and potential success.

The middle class helped economic status for its the middle class which will be majority in future cases the middle class were usually the artisans craftsmen carpenters, and and business owners.

The middle class resulted from the Industrial Revolution as the owners of the factories. They payed factory workers low wages and sold all the goods made in the factories. They made most of the money and could afford to live in houses while the working class lived in tenements near the factories.

The middle class was the majority of the workers that worked in the mills.

**D. problems caused by urbanization and harsh working conditions:** Because of the amount of people now living in the larger cities, tighter living spaces were made to accommodate the growing population.

Cities grew in size and population, eventually becoming overcrowded. Rivers became polluted and the air was turning toxic. It was hard to find work when capacity is less than the number of people in the city who need jobs Many people died or were critically injured, it also led to laws banning overwork, and eventually child labor in general. Workers were injured and crippled from the dangerous machines in the factories. Also, fumes in the factories damaged workers' lungs and made it difficult to breathe.

Cities expanded and soon became polluted and overcrowed. Jobs were scarce and when a job opened up, there were many people who wanted the job. People became injured while working in the mills and factories.

Urbanization caused alot of pollution in the new factory towns and caused many people to become sick. Also the harsh working conditions in the factories caused people to get medical conditions like knock-knees or become blind or deaf. the machines in the factories often mutilated people and children.

Some of the major problems of urbanization included children often getting sick and poor working conditions in the factory.

Factory children and women were pushed over their limits working in factories. Their working hours ranged from 10-14 hours a day. The heavy machinery used in the factories put the workers lives at risk. Some workers had their scalps cut off, and others had limbs torn off. The workers were then unable to support their families and often had to pay the hospital fees.

Factories machines were harmful and caused pollution.Workers could get their fingers or limbs ripped off and could lose there lives, standing at the machines for so long could cause problems later in life.

The workers would go on strike a lot for different reasons. Low wages, long hours, unsafe conditions, and the constant threat of unemployment.

The harsh work led to deformities in children due to weak limbs and worked up bodies. Also its very dangerous, such as the case of Mary Richardson who was caught in a shaft, only one incident out of thousands. Hospitals around factories reported thousands of injuries and many deaths due to poor factory regulations and safety policies.

Urbanization was a key role in the Industrial Revolution. Factory owners built tenements near their own factories where the workers lived. They payed workers low wages. Most of these workers were women and children. There were many hazards caused by the factories. Many people working in the factories risked facing an injury or even death from working on the dangerous machines. Factories created toxins that polluted the area around them. One toxin such as soot which came from coal factories covered the ground around the area.

Urbanization caused crowded cities and pollution. Workers in the factories were not treated fairly, but treated harshly instead. The working conditions were horrible and had bad health risks.