HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Question
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Nobility
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Upper class
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Middle class
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Lower class
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Detailed explanation-1: -Those who benefited most from the Industrial Revolution were the entrepreneurs who set it in motion. The Industrial Revolution created this new middle class, or bourgeoisie, whose members came from a variety of backgrounds. Some were merchants who invested their growing profits in factories.
Detailed explanation-2: -During eighteenth to nineteenth century, Britain started their first Industrial Revolution, which brought Britain’s social class into a different stage, and caused the emergence of the new classes, such as middle class.
Detailed explanation-3: -Prior to the Industrial Revolution there were people of the middling sort, as historians are now inclined to say, but there was not yet a bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie, or middle class, was created by the Industrial Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the Industrial Revolution, the middle class lived in comfortable homes and households that reinforced gender norms. The Industrial Revolution created new jobs like those in office and retail management, as well as sales, for middle class men.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.