Industrial Revolution Research Paper

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In addition to quest for power and domination over each other, there were a number of reasons to prove that history is a much darker tale. The industrial revolution had a negative effect on the world, not to mention its devastating impact on the environment and the urban development. Industrial revolution completely changed the way people lived and worked. Steam power was used to quickly manufacture things that used to rely on manpower. All these industries were centered in large towns and cities. People started leaving their farm jobs in the country to come work in the city--in factories. But life in a new industrial city and working in a factory was not an improvement over life in the countryside, in some ways, to the contrary. According …show more content…
From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage’(Effects).” Meanwhile ,cotton plantations in the southern united states needed to keep up with the demand for raw materials from british cloth factories. By the time the 20th century rolled around, the industrial revolution had changed Europe and the US from farming societies to industrial societies. Of course, burning all that coal and oil, there was quite a bit of pollution. According to Effects of the Industrial Revolution, “ the quality of life decreased a great deal in the first 60 years of the Industrial Revolution...For skilled workers, quality of life took a sharp downturn: ‘A quarter [neighborhood] once remarkable for its neatness and order; I remembered their whitewashed houses, and their little flower gardens, and the decent appearance they made with their families at markets, or at public worship. These houses were now a mass of filth and misery’(Effects).” In addition, social conditions didn’t always get better, and in many cases they got worse. For instance, instead of going to school, children were expected to work more than ever, and for