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This paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution in Europe, more specifically, in Britain, was a curse for the working man. It focuses on living, working, and other poor conditions encountered by peasants. It looks at how it paid the least possible wages and how workers were required to pay for their own food and homes, how child labor was abused, and how the invention of machines led to the depersonalization of companies and families.

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"One way, in which the Industrial Revolution negatively affected the working class, was the abuse of children for labor. One instance of extreme abuse of children was in the mines. The mines preferred child workers rather than adults because children were smaller and therefore the mine's owner didn't have to pay for constructing large tunnels and extra timbering. Cramped into dark, filthy and damp tunnels with only rags for clothes, hundreds of children actually died due to the conditions that they worked in. Children were often paid less than adults and put in other horrible conditions that some adult workers didn't even have to face."

Tags:class, industrial, revolution, working

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This paper discusses how Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class" can be considered 'bottom up' history in its concern to rescue the working people of the Industrial Revolution from the economic conditions of the time. It looks at how, central to Thompson's work, is the theme of the emergence of a conscious working class between 1780 and 1832 in the context of the proletarianization and political repression. It also examines how Thompson's work fits into Marxist thinking and how Thompson is a good example of a cultural Marxist.

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"Marx does not focus on cultural history either, but rather economic history and class relationships for this "grand, overarching evolutionary theory of human history rested upon a dialectic of economic transformation" . For Marx what we do is the basis of who we are. Marx's theory is also an example of a 'systematic theory', in that it tries to explain how all parts relate to the whole in their system. There are several main tenets of Marxist theory which I will explain now in order to establish a framework in order to evaluate E.P. Thompson's work. Marx saw society as being evolutionary in that it moved and would continue to do so through successive stages of economic development or modes of production."

Tags:Industrial, Revolution, working, class

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This paper examines the standard of living of the British working class during the industrial revolution, analyzing whether industrialization was good for this diverse class or not. The paper further notes that despite extensive research conducted on this famous era of economic activity, scholars cannot seem to agree as to whether the working class benefited from this phenomenon or not. Some scholars believe that the industrial revolution was undeniably beneficial for the working class, that industrialization lifted many workers out of unemployment and poverty and offered entrepreneurs the chance to establish new businesses and draw a significant income.

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"The present paper examines the standard of living of the British working class during the industrial revolution, and aims to analyze whether industrialization was good for this diverse class or not. The topic is interesting because, despite the extensive research conducted on this famous era of economic activity, scholars cannot seem to agree as to whether the working class was benefited from this phenomenon or not. Some scholars believe that the industrial revolution was undeniably beneficial..."

Tags:industrial, revolution, class

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The paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution changed social familial relations and the economy, introduced a working class and made new ideas and concepts very popular in Great Britain. The paper suggests that innovation is likely the greatest conceptual product of the Industrial Revolution. The paper concludes that the Industrial Revolution is best described as a period of great growth and change, which created positive ramifications many years down the road for the entire globe, but which also came at a very high cost of human suffering.

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"During the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, a period of dramatic change took place in Great Britain that is known as the Industrial Revolution. The term is thought to have been developed through comparing the rapid social and economic changes in Britain to the French Revolution, which was also a period of great change, although of a different form (Hudson 2004: 33). A variety of factors led people living in England and Wales to begin moving from their rural homes into new urban areas to seem employment in factories instead of working on the rural farms. The massive migration of people into urban areas and the rapid development of technology and infrastructure created historically unique changes in the way individuals lived their lives. The Industrial Revolution was a time period in which social familial relations changed, the economy switched from being based in agriculture to manufacturing, a working class developed and new ideas and concepts became very popular."

Tags:innovation, working, class, factories, families, technology

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The aim of this paper is to outline the causes, objectives, and organization of the Luddite movement in the Industrial Revolution, and the spate of industrial warfare that it set off throughout England. In addition, it seeks to rethink the efficacy of the movement as it affected the Industrial Revolution by making a case - as Eric Hobsbawn has done so convincingly - for a fairer estimation of the Luddites as a force of coercion against their employers. The limited life-span of Luddism, along with its rapid and crushing defeat, has suggested that machine-breaking was a dismal failure. And in some ways, this is true. But this is only part of the story. This essay will highlight some of the tangible successes of this collective bargaining by riot and sabotage, and will also mention some of the values of the technique as they manifested themselves in contemporary working class conditions.

Tags:luddism, industrial, revolution

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This paper discusses the fact that poets and other writers of the Romantic and Victorian era were affected by the industrial revolution in England just as was the rest of the population. The writer discusses that the Industrial Revolution saw a shift in population from rural to urban regions and was also marked by social disruptions, increasing urban poverty, a new factory class of workers, a deterioration in working conditions for many, and a change in the economic structure of British society.

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"In the Victorian era, Charles Dickens analyzed many aspects of the Industrial Revolution in books like Hard Times, and aspects of the era were addressed by poets in various ways. The anonymous poet who wrote "Poverty Knock" captured much of the angst of ..."

Tags:literature, industrial, revolution

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This essay discusses the main factors that led to the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and describes the changes in the social and economic organization of the period.

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"There were a number of factors, from technology to changing views on human nature, that led to the socioeconomic movement known as the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain during the nineteenth century. The Industrial Revolution basically defines the period when there was a change in social and economic organization resulting from the replacement of hand tools by machine and power tools. This development of large scale industrial production took place in England starting at about..."

Tags:raw materials, coal, railroads, working class, middle class, Europe, population, land, agriculture, politics, transportation, labor, energy

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This paper details the poverty and poor working conditions in England during the Victorian Era and how these conditions had a profoundly negative impact on the health and well-being of the working class. The paper describes the long hours, hazardous working conditions, and low pay that sentenced the people of the working class to a life of inadequate food, housing, medical care, and education. The paper also points out how the Victorian Era is a disturbing example of the consequences of substandard working condition.

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"Poor working conditions had a tremendous and negative effect on the health of the working class in England in the Victorian Age. The Victorian Age (the nineteenth century) saw the rise of a large working class, where women, men, and children are spent long hours in employment in substandard conditions. Working conditions were poor, and physical mistreatment was common, as were long hours, unhealthy conditions, and poor wages. As a direct result of these poor conditions and ensuing poverty, the health of the average working class Victorian was poor. Nutrition and hygiene were poor, and disease was common, as was malnutrition."

Tags:toiling, factories, industrial, revolution, workforce, difficult, grueling, damaging, health

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This paper examines the significant impact of the Industrial Revolution on urban society. It looks at how the population of towns grew vastly, how economic advantage entailed that the new factories and offices be situated in the cities, and how the outlook of the city and urban life, in general, were profoundly modified and altered. It also discusses how modern industry created factory owners and capitalists who strengthened the wealth and size of the middle class.

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"Industrialization was preceded and accompanied by rapid population growth, which began in Europe after 1720. People had serious difficulty providing their subsistence by simply growing their food. There was widespread poverty and underemployment. Moreover, the need for workers in the city was huge. More and more factories were opening their doors. The result of this was a vast migration from the countryside to the city where peasants were already being employed. "The number of people living in the cities of 20,000 or more in England and Wales jumped from 1.5 million in 1801 to 6.3 million by 1891" (McKay, 762). With this mass exodus from the countryside, life in urban areas changed drastically. Overcrowding exacerbated by lack of sanitation and medical knowledge made life in the city quite hard and miserable."

Tags:middle, class, working, capitalists, factories

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In this article, the writer notes that one of the most significant changes that resulted from the industrial revolution involves standards of living all over the world. This work discusses emerging standards of living, first through a brief historical timeline and by assessing the level of urbanization that has occurred. The paper then takes a look at class emergence in the wake of the industrial revolution and assesses the wage economy. Next, the paper analyzex the nature and structure of the family economy, and lastly, it looks at the movement of the means of production as it applies to standard of living. The writer maintains that clearly, the manner in which people work, the place they live, the wages they earn, the way they receive goods and services and the changes that all these things create in the family are indicative of standards of living. The industrial revolution created massive changes in all these things for a great many people.

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"In the early years of industrialization the switch was evident in every member of the family, including the wage earning of women and children. To some degree it is debatable as to whether the release of control of the means of production is an increase or a decrease in standard of living. This depends almost entirely on mitigating factors, such as work conditions, hours of work, real wage earned, and amenities offered by employer and living conditions that a family is willing and able to provide for itself, but there is no question that the switch from control of the means of production to wage earning is a substantial one.
"One issue that is particularly important, on determining the impact of such changes is health. Some historians and economists see nutritional health, and the outcomes of it are essential to a complete understanding of the separation of families and individuals from the means of production."

Tags:global, industrialization, growth, conditions