• How Did The Industrial Revolution Transform Western Society?

The Industrial Revolution was a transitional period in which there was a significant change in how things were manufactured. There were shifts from agricultural-based life to a more industrial(hence the name) way of life by working in factories and with machines. There are questions that revolved around the Industrial Revolution, however. Such as what was the emergence of the Industrial Revolution like? What were the origins of the Industrial Revolution? How did the Industrial Revolution transform Western society? The emergence of the Industrial Revolution did not come right away. It started in Western Europe, but why there out of all places? Why not China, Mughal India, or around Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia under the reign

This shuttle, which could be used in the home, was a device of the wool trade for generations. Weavers produced faster than spinners until James Hargreaves’s spinning jenny, perfected by 1768, enabled the operator to work several spindles at once powered only by human energy. Within five years, Richard Arkwright powered a spinning machine by water or animal energy. Six years later (1779), Samuel Crompton’s spinning mule powered many spindles, first by human and later by animal and water energy.”(Perry et al, 2008). It just kept changing and growing, with people making little adjustments to the tools they used as they worked. Everything was being improved so much that were shortages in weaving until a power loom was developed in 1787. All these advancements substantially affected the way people worked. Early on, families worked together in their homes until more strength was necessary to power these looms, people started utilizing the water frame and it was seen as more productive to have workers by the water. there were specialized factories for weaving or spinning. Eventually, there would be factories opening all over, completely revolutionizing and urbanizing

This conversion completely dismantled the old subsections of the clergy, nobility, and commoners. “The development of industry and commerce created a bourgeoisie of middle-class people of common birth who engaged in trade and other capitalist ventures. Usually referred to as the middle classes (plural) because of the several economic layers, the wealthiest bourgeois were bankers, factory and mine owners, and merchants, but shopkeepers, managers, lawyers, and doctors were also included”(Perry et al, 2008). The Industrial Revolution altered society with the emergence of new social classes and the increase in urbanization or the movement of people to