How Did The Rise In Population Contributed To Industrialization

From the year 1800 to 1850, the population of Wales and England doubled, going from nine million to roughly eighteen million. During the period of time, the percentage of people living in cities rose from 10 percent to nearly 50 percent. Combined, the population of the cities of Wales and England increased from about eight hundred thousand to over nine million, reaching more than a 1,000-percent increase in only 50 years. The rise in population surprised the people at the time. The quick rise in population can’t be directly tied to industrialization; however industrialization surely contributed to the impact of England's transformation from a rural, farming culture to an urban, industrial culture as the nineteenth century proceeded. These cultural

changes had many causes and outcomes.
After the enclosure movement, there was massive consolidation of farmlands in which the wealthy began to petition the government to gain ownership of lands that local communities shared, causing poorer people to be pushed off the land and into cities and towns. There was a substantial increase in the amount of factories that were providing jobs for these former farmers. The majority of these workers were fairly unskilled, but they could be instructed on how to use the new types of machinery being established. Working inside the factories was a job both filthy and sometimes deadly. Employees were disciplined strictly and treated harsh. The average worker was far overworked and underpaid. Those who worked in the factories were considered to have a short life expectancy; if the overworking didn’t kill you, a piece of machinery certainly could. Workdays were very long and, being completely indoors, did not operate on what one would consider nowadays to be normal business hours. At that time the government was providing no regulations on how employees of a business must be treated.
The physical facilities of cities quickly became overwhelmed by the rapid flow of rural people. Inexpensive, poorly built homes were erected and people poured into them. Facilities of public health, such as sewage systems, were not adequately built and simply could not keep up with the fast rise in population.
On a positive note the new machinery being invented during the industrialization period increased the speed in which goods were being produced and also made the transportation of raw materials possible. The invention of the steam engine, the development of railway systems, and improved roadways all played tremendous roles improving the movement of people and goods. Industrialization also led to the movement of people into cities and city building, also known as urbanization.