Joseph Capper Mr. Small Brit. Lit. 5/7/18 The Negative Effects of Industrialization The Industrial Revolution was a big point of improvement in humanity. It showed that we had the ability to grow and create new things that allow us to make our work more efficient. This originated in Britain before spreading to the rest of the world. It marked the beginning of factories and the ability to use machines as a way to easy the burden on ourselves and spread up the creation process of any product. When this began, most Britons felt and shared a deep confidence in humanities ability to better itself, however, “The Victorian Thinkers” of the time had conflicting ideas. These thinkers thought the brutality of the environments that were used to create …show more content…
It began in 18th-century England. “Great Britain led the world in industrialization, due in part to its introduction of property laws, protecting individual rights to inventions with patents. British law also protected citizenry against the seizure of property by royalty or aristocrats. Such factors encouraged risk and resulted in iron and steel manufacture, the building of steam engines, and the ready production of textiles from natural materials” (Brackett). The coal and iron mining lead to an increase in transportation an railroad operations. There were immediately positive results. These included improved production of goods and expansion of trade. The biggest immediate effect of the revolution was the conversion into an industrial society. People started moving off farms and into big cities to be able to work int he factories. The rapid efficiency increase led to a production increase, which revolutionized the world. Not everything coming out of the revolution was …show more content…
People used anything they could find as shelter. Low incomes led to a lacking in the medical field. This caused a high mortality rate for infants. Early adults deaths increased due to the illnesses that were easily spread in the sweatshops that were close quarters and dirty. People also would lose limbs and sometimes their lives to the machinery. “The division of labor into boring repetitive tasks provided little in the way of intellectual stimulation. Labor movements, including the Chartist movement, were organized to protect workers, focusing on factory abuses and including the push to reform Corn Laws and the poor laws. Fiction, especially in the 1840s, began to reflect the era, with authors supporting various reform causes, including the abolition of capital punishment. Authors of such thesis novels, also popularly called novels with a purpose, included Charles Dickens, Charles Kingsley, Frances Trollope, Benjamin Disraeli, and Elizabeth Gaskell, all of whom called for reform of shameful and exploitive working conditions”