WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -More than any other group, this middle class benefited from the rise in national incomes that came with more industrialization. Bankers, merchants, capitalists and factory owners could afford to buy all of the new industrial goods that factories were producing.

Detailed explanation-2: -Despite all these ills, the Industrial Revolution had positive effects, such as creating economic growth and making goods more available. It also helped lead to the rise of a prosperous middle class that grabbed some of the economic power once held by aristocrats, and led to the rise of specialized jobs in industry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Class Division At the top of society was the aptly-named upper class. They were wealthy, educated, and owned the factories or buildings in which people worked. They did not work with their hands, but they were also not necessarily nobility.