The Industrial Revolution brought about many positive things. During this time society benefitted from making more goods, cheaper labor and overall improved the economy. However, it also had a very negative effect on society. Industrialization’s negative effects were child labor, unequal pay, over populated and poor living conditions. These are the reasons why many people thought the Industrial Revolution was harmful. The worst of these things was child labor and the effect it had on families. Child labor was a cruel, unjust way to earn money. Most kids at this time did not go to school and had deformities from working in harsh conditions. One example was Elizabeth Bentley, who testified before a parliamentary committee investigating conditions …show more content…
Women made 1/3 of what men made for the equal amount of labor. Mary Paul is not happy with her working conditions, but she believes it to be the best work for her as a woman “I think the factory is the best place for me.” (Document1). Women in the factories had to work very hard for very little pay. Women had unequal pay because society thought they weren’t capable of working like men. In this poem it shows just how hard this life was for little kids “I have a little boy at home, A pretty little son; I think sometimes the world is mine. In him my only one… Before dawn my labor drives me forth. TIS the night when I am free; a stranger am I to my child; and he one to me” (Document 2). This document shows that both she and her son work in the factories. They work so much that they have become strangers because they never see each other. This next document shows the negative side of children working in the factories "This shows the ugly side of child labor, Lack of safety features/unsafe working conditions, the children working are very young they are obviously not in school/lack of education” (Document8). In this document they talk about how children working in these factories don’t get a good education, they do not have enough time to attend school. It also shows how they are very easily injured from working in these harsh conditions. Not only was there unequal pay for women, boys, and girls, but there was
Industrialization’s negative effects were child labor, family separation, and poor working conditions. Since the beginning of time, children have toiled on family farms. When Industrialization came, the children moved
The Second Industrial Revolution affected the North, South, West, and Midwest in several ways. New unions and laws were introduced. More issues regarding differences in culture and social classes arose. Economies developed greatly with efficient farming technologies and manufacturing industries. Populations had major changes with increased amounts of people in urban areas around cities, and increased amounts of immigrants.
The textile factories were an unsafe and unheathly place for working class families to work. These factories were unsafe for children to work because the factories would over work the children,give them a insuffient diet and the factories were filled with diseases. For example a testimony from Joesph Hebergram to the Sadler committee he said; ‘i have damged lunges. my lgs muscles do not function properly and will not support the weight of my bones... the doctor told me that it was caused by dust in the factory,from being over worked and a insufficient diet.
The conclusion of the eighteenth century and the dawn of the nineteenth was a time of great growth of industry in America. There were many positives of this growth, and many negatives. One positive were that everybody has more luxuries; another positive was that a lot of money came into the US. There were many severe negatives of the new growth of industry. Two of these were horrible factory conditions, and child labor.
Many kids and adults had to work all day on their feet and never really got time to relax and go home. they had to work for hours in machines which could make people sick because there were pollutions and other chemical that gave people health problems and they may sometimes have died because maybe they couldn’t afford to go to the doctors because, workers in the factories didn’t really get pay that much because of how they work for long times . according to Document 2 it explains “ the hour labor was from 6 to t night; it was very difficult work “as a result, even though many people work they couldn’t afford to buy much food for their family and barely saw their kids and have a time to enjoy each other. Also there were many people adult that could no longer work and manger would offer little kids to work at a very younger age and didn’t have to go to school. Many girls who work had to tie their hair back because it would be catch on the machines.
While some may argue that the Industrial Revolution had a primarily positive effect on society because of the job increase and large advancements in technology, it actually had more of a negative effect. Some of the negative effects of industrialization
Women and children were the ones mostly risking their lives working in a factory. “In a factory in Japan, the women had to pull threads off silkworm cocoons and put them into a hot water basin” (Doc A). These silkworm cocoon threads were then threaded together to make clothing. This process might’ve been long and tiring as well as dangerous because they could get easily burned while working with these unsafe equipments. This is negative because the workers could’ve worked with equipments that weren’t as unsafe.
The Industrial Revolution created factories for businesses to grow and produce consumer goods. The factories hired many child workers and had them work in dangerous working conditions. Many people, usually inspectors and reporters, had noticed the troubled and hazardous state that many small children were working in. They’ve contributed to the recognition of the dangerous working conditions to the Parliament. This later resulted in the Parliament granting factory workers, the Factory Acts, and the School Sites Acts.
Not only did it affect them, but it also affected the workers. Everyday they went to work and any one of them could have died on any given day. They had no choice but to work in these horrible conditions, it's the only way they could make a living. They knew how it was an that it was not right, but there wasn't much they could really do. The industrial revolution definitively had more cost than benefits, especially for
DBQ: Positive and Negative Effects of The Industrial Revolution After 1750 gradual changes took place in England, which indefinitely marks the emergence of the Industrial Revolution. These changes were both affirmative and opposing. On the positive side, a factory system was established, steam engines were developed and the population density spread over Great Britain briskly. On a negative note, the working conditions were revolting, which led to the spread of disease and death. Overall, the changes in Europe reshaped the society as a whole, both positively and negatively.
Blaire Carney December, 1, 2017 Changing Society DBQ DiPrimo 6 During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, there was a great abundance of civil issues with American politics and society. Reformers are those people who not only took notice of the problems but also took actions to amend them. Society was such a mess that most citizens were in danger, be it from food unfit to eat before it was further defiled by workers and animals in the abhorrent circumstances found within most food-processing factories, illnesses spread through closely confined living quarters lacking ventilation or necessary access to bathrooms for basic hygiene, corruption, and bribery inherent in the structures of political machines, or discrimination
Many children worked in factories and mines, where they were exposed to hazardous chemicals and machinery. The use of child labor was especially prevalent in the coal mines, where young boys were
Conditions were hazardous and grueling. They worked long hours for little pay. Most of them could not read or write and they could not attend school because they needed to work. They suffered from malnutrition and exhaustion. They were innocent children that were locked up in factories, like they had committed a crime.
“Factory life was not healthy for working class families during the industrial revolution because of people visiting factories and seeing it wasn 't child friendly”. Child labor was a part of the industrial revolution they were mistreated and overworked. Two documents [The house of lords Dr.Ward] and [John Birley newspaper article] can support the evidence we need to prove that child labor was horrible. When the house of lords asks Dr.Ward “have you observed that children in the factories have particular accidents”Dr. Ward followed with his answer “When i was a surgeon in the infirmary,accidents were very often admitted to the infirmary,though the children 's hands and arms having been caught in the machinery;In many instances the
A major debate among Historians is if the Industrial Revolution was helpful or harmful. The industrial revolution created a big change in the society of America. It was an age of innovation and creativeness for the inventors of the world. It was an age of sorrow and despair for the workers of the world.