Industrialization Dbq Essay

While some might argue that industrialization had primarily negative consequences for society because of separated family life, it was actually a positive thing for society. Industrialization’s positive effects were more jobs, child labor laws and faster production. “Separated family life is when parents are gone the whole time at work and leaves their own child alone in the house” (Document 2). The overall question is asking us if the industrialization has a greater positive or negative effect on society. I think that the documents has greater positive because every page on these document were a lot of positives and the negatives were less.

My first argument that I am going to talk about is more jobs. A 16 year old girl named Mary Paul and she worked in a textile factory in Lowell. “She likes her job because she has good boarding and having enough to eat on a lunch time” (Document 1). As the industrial revolution spread to the United States, plants such as this textile factory appeared. “The factory produces local good (output), gives people jobs, source of income for the village” (Document 3). “Comparing the output of one product put together by one person compared to an assembly line producing a greater amount of products” (Document 4).

My second argument that I am going to talk about is child labor laws.

When parents have to go to work all the time and they have to leave their child at home that’s because “they are working or having a job and child labor laws led to public education” (Document 2). As countries industrialized, they also urbanized. This was a result of people moving to cities in large numbers in order to gain factory jobs. “Child labor laws are in place and people are becoming healthier” (Document 6). Between 1908– 1912 Lewis Hine worked as the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC). “They are working to contribute money to their family” (Document

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One of the negative industrialization was separated family life and one of the positive industrialization was more jobs and child labor laws. Separated family life is terrible because when you go out to work or college you will miss your mother, your father, your son, and your daughter very much. More jobs is like when you get good money, good boarding and also they let you have enough to eat for lunch because it is important what kind of job that you feel conformable with. Child labor laws are when people are becoming healthier and working to contribute money to their family. These negative and the positive industrial are the things that people are trying to do what is best for them and these people are willing to try not to give up with their own life with their children’s and their parents of their separated family life. It is important to have more jobs to get lots of money and child labor laws to become healthier.