WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The growth of manufacturing sector lead to what?
A
Decrease of available labor supply
B
Decrease of overseas trade
C
Increase in agricultural output
D
Increase in migration to urban areas
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The process has historically led to urbanization by creating economic growth and job opportunities that draw people to cities. Urbanization typically begins when a factory or multiple factories are established within a region, which creates a high demand for factory labor.

Detailed explanation-2: -In rural areas, less employment opportunities, low wages, drought, lack of basic amenities, landlessness, social factors act as push factors and more employment opportunities, higher income, better wages, better facilities activities as pull factors towards the rural to urban migration.

Detailed explanation-3: -“Cities grew because industrial factories required large workforces and workers and their families needed places to live near their jobs. Factories and cities attracted millions of immigrants looking for work and a better life in the United States.”

Detailed explanation-4: -The technological explosion that was the Industrial Revolution led to a momentous increase in the process of urbanization. Larger populations in small areas meant that the new factories could draw on a big pool of workers and that the larger labour force could be ever more specialized.

Detailed explanation-5: -From the close of the first century B.C. demand for Indian goods brought merchants and ships from the Roman world in the west in close contact with peninsular India. This provided a major impetus to the growth of trade and of urban centres.

Detailed explanation-6: -social-poor housing conditions and much higher crime rates. economic-low wages or unemployment. environmental-polluted drinking water and a lack of sanitation.

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