The Industrial Revolution Consequences & Effects
Dec 30, 2015
The Industrial Revolution saw a previously inconsequential part of the world (EUROPE) become the centre of a new worldwide economy.
2. Rise of capitalism
0Capitalism became the most efficient and productive way to finance a country
0Factory owners and others who controlled the means of production quickly became very rich
0Working class conditions becameworse Greater class division
0Bad living conditions; small houses, cramped streets, dampness, open sewers
0Chronic hunger and malnutrition 0Diseases (TB,
lung diseases, cholera, typhoid)
4. Population Increase0The population of England and Wales, which had
remained steady at 6 million from 1700 to 1740, rose dramatically after 1740.
0The population of England had more than doubled from 8.3 million in 1801 to 16.8 million in 1850.
0By 1901, had nearly doubled again to 30.5 million.
6. Child Labour0Limited opportunity for education, and children were
expected to work.0Worked in relatively bad conditions for much lower
pay than their elders.0Children as young as 4 were employed.0Factory Acts of 1833 and 1844 limited use of child
labour.
7. Organisation of labour
0Concentration of labour into factories, mills and mines Trade unions Strike action
0Socialism- Idea of dividing wealth
0Communism (1848)- Marx & Engels: The Communist Manifesto