The Industrial Revolution came like a rock smashing into a great pond. It appeared suddenly, and caused many ripples to spread soon after. Those ripples represent the problems that the Industrial Revolution inflicted on society. Starting in Britain around the 1700s, the Industrial Revolution resulted in many changes that spread throughout Europe and the Americas. Its negative impact on society led to unnecessary stress and disorder to certain groups of people. While there were dreadful effects of the Revolution, the three main results were overpopulated cities, women's struggles, and child labor. Overpopulation was one of the many problems due to the Industrial Revolution. As the number of people increased, there were less and less …show more content…
Women during this time period had to juggle around their job and home life. Each duty in itself entrails many responsibilities. Despite the insanely low income that they received and the way they were treated by others, women had to maintain a steady balance between working many hours of the day and taking care of their family at home. In some cases, the only source of income in a family was a woman. Oftentimes, those burdens were incredibly detrimental to their health and mind. However, women received half the amount of pay than that of men. All because they were seen as working for “pin money” which is extra money to spend on unnecessary things. The stereotypical ideal of women also affected their jobs. Men not only received a higher payroll, but also took supervisory roles from women. There was less of a chance for women to have power in the workplace due to stereotypes. Each piece of evidence leads to women’s struggles being a great consequence of the Industrial …show more content…
During the “Cottage Industry”, children often worked on their parent’s farm or in a family business. However, once all factories were built in, children were encouraged to join the workforce in the cities. The unfortunate truth was that children were a lot easier to take advantage of. In other words, they would be mistreated, paid a lot less, and work in unsafe environments. No matter how much they worked, they never fought back. They did not have common sense of income or fairness. They just followed the orders with no questions asked. Another poor factor of this laboring system was the lack of education. Since children spent all day in factories and little time at home, schooling was out of the question. As the children grew up, they had no concept of anything other than working. All they knew was to work. Lastly, the working conditions were horrifying. The machines were bound to dysfunction and each time a child would have to go in and fix it. There was no saying what would happen to that child if the machine started working all of the sudden. Losing body parts was not unheard of as it was most common among those who either worked in the factories or mining areas. The workspace was always dirty and there was little room to even work in the first place. Thus, child labor was the most cruel form of work caused by the Industrial
Children’s fingers were often severely injured and in most instances cut off due to the factory machinery. Their arms were often caught in the machines and stripped all the way down to the bone and some were so severe that they had to amputate a limb. Children had to work to provide for their families
One of the tolls industrialization took was that children were being forced to work.
However, working in a factory usually meant harsh and unsafe conditions, a low pay rate, and long working hours (Carter and Wilkinson). The workers were also forced to live in crowded conditions, and often had poor housing and low sanitation (Betts). With this in mind, there was an increase in deaths not only from the disease, and many were killed or injured due to harsh conditions. Their work was more strictly monitored, and people had to work long hours, their time was managed by the factory owner, and was harmful to their health (Betts). As a result of employment, there was an increased demand for laborers, specifically children.
The Industrial Revolution brought about significant changes to the workplace. In Document 1, Thomas Bernhard describes the working conditions of children employed in Mr. Dale's cotton mills. While children in other factories faced harsh working conditions, Mr. Dale's factory had special regulations to protect the health and morals of those under his protection. Out of nearly 3,000 children employed in the mills from 1785 to 1797, only fourteen have died, and not one has been the object of judicial punishment.
Women were also an effective cause for the creation of specific laws. During this time period, women were still not allowed to vote. They also faced hardships such as not being able to own property. Women were expected to focus on housework and motherhood, not politics.
In the 1920s, there were about 1 million children ages 10 to 15 working. The children were working on farms, in factories, served as messengers, and they did just about everything. They were working long hours throughout the day and only getting paid minimum wage. Factories would choose children instead of adults and they would pay the children less money. The children would go to work instead of getting an education and going to school.
Child labor was a big problem in these factories. “The factory employs 16-18 year old students to make up for the understaffed factory. The students are expected to follow and fulfill the same responsibilities as their adult co workers.” (American Eagle Workers). Many of these young workers are not super educated.
The Industrial Revolution, which started in Great Britain in the late 17th century and continued through the 19th century, had both positive and negative effects on society. On the positive side, it led to increased productivity, economic growth, and technological advancements that revolutionized transportation and communication. However, it also had negative impacts on workers, including poor working conditions, long hours, and low pay. It also had negative effects on the environment, contributing to pollution and other forms of environmental degradation. The Industrial Revolution brought many changes to society, both with positive and negative consequences.
During the Industrial Revolution, Great Britain experienced significant technological progress which contributed to its economic expansion. However, this period also had negative consequences such as pollution, disease, and poor living and working conditions including child labor. These issues had long term impacts and shaped the future of the world. Despite these negative effects, there were also positive outcomes like increased job opportunities, higher production rates, and an impact on global trade.
Unsafe working conditions plagued next to, if not, all factories during industrialization. Thousands of workers grew ill or suffered injuries as a consequence of their labor, and would yield their jobs, surrendering their source of income. Taken in the early 1900s, “Lewis Hine’s picture depicts two children working on a very dangerous machine” (Document 8). The matter that children were allowed to manage these machines is awful enough, ignoring just how dangerous the machines were. In addition to this, the children did not appear to be well supervised, which made it all too easy for a disastrous injury to occur.
In regular factories, there were many risks, especially since child labor made up most of the work force, there were many accidents because the kids would be careless, or get stuck, or multiple other reasons. In a picture taken in 1912 in a textile factory, two children are seen working the machines. They’re both 10 years or younger, and standing on the machines barefoot. The children could easily slip and fall, get their fingers or toes crushed, or numerous other deadly accidents. A census from 1890 showed that over one million children between the ages of 10-15 years old worked in America, and that number increased drastically, by two million, in 1910 (Davis, “Progressive Era Reform”).
These factory owners had no care for Children Labor, and this in turn changed children working forever where in 2015 most places require you be 18 years of age or you cannot get the
Child labor was a great concern in the Industrial revolution but very few people did something to stop it. Women and Children were forced to work more than 10 hours a day with only forty minutes to have lunch. Elizabeth Bentley once said that they didn’t have any time to have breakfast or drink anything during the day. They worked standing up and if they didn’t do their work on time they were strapped (whipped). Children were treating like they were not important, like they didn’t deserve a better life.
Diseases spread rapidly because of these terrible living conditions, but there was always another worker ready to replace the one that had died. Many women were left widows because of this. The women, therefore also started taking up jobs such as coal mining and factory work to support their families. Even the children took smaller jobs to help with the family 's finances. They were, however, mistreated and many suffered injuries from the machines used for factory work.
The industrial revolution created an age of wonder for the rich but also created a nightmare for the workers powering the industrial revolution. The period of rapid industrial growth during the 1800s and into the early 1900s was more harmful because of poor working conditions, violent labor disputes and poor regulations at factories. The businessmen of the industrial revolution created poor working conditions for men and women just