Industrial Revolution Working Class

The industrial Revolution was a time of greatness throughout the world. The major changes started in the year of 1760 until around 1840. The Industrial Revolution first started in Great Britain and that was due to all the resources they had. Great Britain had natural resources and a lot of support from their government. They had connections to rivers which supplied water power and allowed construction of canals. Britain also had establish and easier and cheaper way to communicate and transport due to the accessibility to the sea from everywhere. New technologies was also a big part of the Industrial Revolution because Inventors and their brilliant creativity helped the people with many of their problems like transportation, trading of goods,

However To working class people it was a bad situation that they were in and it was because of the fact the Industrial Revolution brought a rapid movement of people into the cities. The changes in farming, population growth, and the increasing demand for workers caused farm workers to migrate to the cities, and at first everything was good people were working and bringing in money and their jobs were easier than before on the farms. The Industrial Revolution had middle class between the working class known as the bourgeoisie and they owned and operated factories,mines,railroads, and etc; their lives were more comfortable than the working class people who were known as the proletariats and the situation made them confused and lost. . they had to work in hard and uncomfortable conditions while the bourgeoisie had everything they needed. The proletariats were the hardest working people and they basically did everything for everyone. They brought in food, money, and others goods that were needed by the people;however they were still the most mistreated class and there were so many of them that their little community was dirty and unsanitary. They lived in multistory buildings called tenements that were divided in apartments. They had no running water only comunity pumps and they had no sewage or sanitation system so all waste went out into the streets or into

Inventors and their great inventions allowed easier ways for jobs to be done and for better products to be made which led this world into its tremendous prosperity, but like most important things from the past the industrial revolution had its own flaws. It controlled many people into poverty and even though it was sometimes not the fault of the inventors, machines, or the factories the misery of the people was still created. Workers were moving into cities at a rapid rate and things were okay at first until the difference between the working class happened which brought on the people’s nightmare. Factory owners forced children to work for them and parents had to watch their children go to work everyday and die whenever the factory was done with them. Workers had to work long hours and half of them got sick with “Mill Fever”while the rest lost hands or their body parts. Most people that lived through the conditions barely lived to see the age of fifty. Working however wasn’t the only problem in industrial revolution living situations was als another big issue. While everyone else lived in better looking homes and had more comfortable lives people on the dirty side of town were struggle to live. They lived in tenements which were one-room houses that were dirty, dusty, and very unbearable but that was their only shelter. The streets were full of holes and since they no drains the trash were gathered in a