How Did The Industrial Revolution Affect The World

Introduction

The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and quickly spread throughout the world. This time period saw the mechanization of agriculture and textile manufacturing and a revolution in power. This is a period whereby societies transformed from primarily agricultural societies into ones based on the manufacturing of goods and services. This paper aims to discuss how the industrial revolution of 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840 led to an increased need for human services.

The industrial revolution ended the domestic system of production, and created an urban working class. This was a period of time when the use of people for manual labor was substituted with machines, which greatly increased the rate of production. It replaced the animal and human power by mechanical power and transformed agriculture based economies to manufacturing based ones. This led to the development of enclosure

It has been argued that the factory systems developed during the Industrial Revolution are responsible for the modern cities we know today. The Industrial Revolution changed material production, labor patterns and population distribution. People migrated from rural areas to urban areas, but their lives in cities changed drastically. The growth of cities led to horrible living conditions. Despite its many positive effects, industrialization had a negative impact on Europe too. Urban areas doubled, tripled, or quadrupled in size which led to overcrowding in cities. Sometimes a large population is a good thing, but in this case the population was too big and caused many health problems. Living conditions were dirty and unhealthy. Cities were unsanitary and diseases filled the streets. There were no sanitation codes in cities. Many citizens got very sick. The sanitary conditions in early industrial cities were dirty. Shanty towns