INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT
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the increase in air pollution
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people dying from lack of food
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an increase in deaths by road accidents
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the rise of the industrial middle class and industrial working class
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Detailed explanation-1: -The industrial revolution led to the emergence of two new classes: the working class and the new middle class. Increase in economic activity led to the decline in the autonomy of work. People worked for longer hours braving the hazards of unprotected machinery.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Industrial Revolution brought rapid urbanization or the movement of people to cities. Changes in farming, soaring population growth, and an ever-increasing demand for workers led masses of people to migrate from farms to cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Industrial Revolution shifted from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.
Detailed explanation-4: -During industrialization the classes of people were affected differently. With the rise of industrialization, the majority of upper and middle class workers were well off and able to have jobs in management, where they had more structure to their work week, hours they worked, and got paid more.
Detailed explanation-5: -The four industrial revolutions are coal, gas, electronics and nuclear, and the internet and renewable energy.