Life During The Industrial Revolution

Prior to the industrial revolution people rarely experienced change. It was an extremely different place than it is now. During the industrial revolution there was a radical change in the socioeconomic and cultural conditions. People in majority were farmers since they didn’t have any technology everybody had to grow their own food. They were interdependent in maintaining all their necessities, mainly in their local communities because of the difficulty in distant transportation because they had no motorized vehicles. In villages there were private and public lands and in most there was no separating fence. In the public lands or village commons villagers could gather wood or have their livestock graze in the pastures and sum of the less wealthy

They used the same old tools they had for centuries; the tools their ancestors developed. The whole family work literally all day as hard as they could. Even the children put in their part. The boys helped their farther with the crops and the girls helped their mother tend to the livestock and/or make food.
Families deciphered time by seasons and religious traditions. Also they were relatively small regardless of their wealth because of the absence of medication for disease. The life expectancy was astonishingly short (approximately 40) and it’s also disturbing how common it was and often people died. One in every three babies died before they reached one, and half the people will never achieve the age of

They previously made due on charcoal but with the ascending popularity of steam engines and furnaces there was a demand for coal. Improvements in the steam engine and development of factories by Arkwright and Watt further increased this growing demand of coal. Mining was extremely dangerous flooding, encounters with explosions from damp gas (explosive gas found deep in the earth) or poisons gas, and collapses were not uncommon. In an attempt to avoid these issues they set up ventilation and had young children called trappers open and close them so coal trucks could pass through. They also deemed it would protect the rest of the coal if an explosion were to occur. But convenient inventions were soon devised; the air pump (1807 john bundle) and the safety lamp (1815 sir Humphrey Davy).The air pump was used to move poisonous or explosive gases and the safety lamp prevented explosions too by encoding the candle in a barrier of glass and metal. Despite all the safety changes the mine still remained immensely dangerous. Coal mines were especially inhumane to children some trappers were employed as young as five and were expected to carry bundles of coal much too heavy for them which caused many deformities in the