What Happened During The Industrial Revolution
GKE1 Task 4
During the time period of 1780-1850 the United States and Great Britain were part of the Industrial Revolution. This revolution was a time of many changes with technology and scientific advancements.
Many changes happened during the revolution that changed the way people worked, lived and survived. The Industrial Revolution included many changes to production of goods and materials. More technology-advanced equipment was able to change the way food, textiles, steel and chemicals were made. The changes to the equipment made it more efficient for items to be made and would allow sales of the goods to happen faster and in turn would lead to a need for larger quantity of productions. What used to take one week for a factory …show more content…
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factory owners even allowed women and young children to work in the facilities. This would be very stressful on families and it caused the breakdown of the structured family unit. This happened because when workers were actually making the products it was a much slower process and it gave the workers a chance to spend time with their families. Since the women were used to make a higher profit at the factories they were no longer home to take of household duties (History, 2009). Children were in the factories working instead of receiving and education.
Another change that happened during the Industrial Revolution was urbanization. More jobs were created due to factories being built. New jobs were created because they needed people to help manage the equipment in the factories. Workers felt like a factory job would be beneficial to them so they would move from their rural homes to more commercialized areas. There were some negative factors that came along with the urbanization. Since the factories attracted workers from many different cultures this caused a decrease in cultural values. Having a dramatic increase in population in the area also brought crimes, poverty and pollution (History,
During the time period of 1780-1850 the United States and Great Britain were part of the Industrial Revolution. This revolution was a time of many changes with technology and scientific advancements.
Many changes happened during the revolution that changed the way people worked, lived and survived. The Industrial Revolution included many changes to production of goods and materials. More technology-advanced equipment was able to change the way food, textiles, steel and chemicals were made. The changes to the equipment made it more efficient for items to be made and would allow sales of the goods to happen faster and in turn would lead to a need for larger quantity of productions. What used to take one week for a factory …show more content…
The
factory owners even allowed women and young children to work in the facilities. This would be very stressful on families and it caused the breakdown of the structured family unit. This happened because when workers were actually making the products it was a much slower process and it gave the workers a chance to spend time with their families. Since the women were used to make a higher profit at the factories they were no longer home to take of household duties (History, 2009). Children were in the factories working instead of receiving and education.
Another change that happened during the Industrial Revolution was urbanization. More jobs were created due to factories being built. New jobs were created because they needed people to help manage the equipment in the factories. Workers felt like a factory job would be beneficial to them so they would move from their rural homes to more commercialized areas. There were some negative factors that came along with the urbanization. Since the factories attracted workers from many different cultures this caused a decrease in cultural values. Having a dramatic increase in population in the area also brought crimes, poverty and pollution (History,