Negative Impacts of the Industrial Revolution in England

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The Industrial Revolution was a degradation of humanity and by any means "no amount of industrial or economic progress could justify the price of human misery." After reviewing the literary sources, laws, testimony and reflections by persons in the I.B. Case Study: The Industrial Revolution the contention that the Industrial Revolution has had a positive effect on society is highly refuted in my conclusion. The society of England during this time was based upon the new inventions, which revolutionized textiles and were back-boned by the steam engine, patented in 1769 by James Watts. Albeit these machines made it easier for previously hand-done tasks many children were abused through labor in factories, women exploited, the human mentality, body, and soul abused and slowly weakened, education not set upon as a quintessential importance in life, sanitation levels were decreased as diseases performed the opposite, and the social and national ranks in different nations became !

more segregated than before leaving those previously poor, now fruitless. To question if the Industrial Revolution had a positive effect upon society is not a question at all.

During the Industrial Revolution child labor in these factories was a poten

and the public for their good treatment." To make a statement of this class distinctly shows the degradation of human mentality in effect of the Industrial Revolution. Ure also noted, "It is moreover my firm conviction that if children are not ill-used by bad parents or guardians, but receive in food and raiment the full benefit of what they earn, they would thrive better when employed in our modern factories than if left at home in apartments too often ill aired, damp, and cold." Again, another example, but also a positively inaccurate statement. Instead of facing the abuse of the factory work children could learn and become "educated," an element overlooked in this industrial society. During this time "a person who was a good reader of the newspaper, and could talk about various wars, battles, and sieges, was looked upon by the people and said to be a 'great scholar' and 'a far learned man." If children would take out the early portion of their lives to become educa!

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ted their would be many more options they could chose from. Since achieving an education was not properly valued books and materials needed were very limited and of poor condition. In addition to learn how to write you must have some wealth because the tax on paper and the low demand caused the price to be high. Not until after the Factory Act of 1833 was passed could one make the comment, "When I visited this school a few months ago, there were from 4,000 to 5,000 young people profiting by the instructions administered by 400 teachers, distributed into proper classes, and arranged upwards of forty schoolrooms, besides the grand hall in the top of the building," such as Andrew Ure. Just because there were schools now and laws requiring children to attend school the quality of instruction was still questioned by those such as Friedrich Engels. "It is true the manufacturers boast of having enabled the majority to read," but "according to this report, he who knows his letter!

ny he described Manchester as a city with possibilities that, "a cottage row may be badly drained, the streets may be full of pits, brimful of stagnant water, the receptacle of dead cats and dogs, yet no one may find fault." People had to live in these places in exchange for the new inventions that produced a higher abu

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