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Did peoples lives improve or get worse in industrial revolution? :)?

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Did peoples lives improve or get worse in industrial revolution? :)?

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I think we all agree on the middle and upper classes. But the problem today is that whenever we see a man get rich, we must find an unfortunate victim to account fot it. I’m not at all sure that’s the way it was. The new industrial jobs were certainly hard and dangerous – but, if you’d come out of the Irish famines, or out of the Highland Clearances, with the baby crying with hunger, and your wife crying because she couldn’t be sure the baby would cry again tomorrow, the meaning of ‘dangerous‘ becomes a little clouded. I mean, what’s more dangerous or humiliating than watching helplessly as, one by one, your children starve to death sometime in the next 24 hours? How many of us would opt for that, I wonder? Life in the new industrial cities was not remotely what any of us would call good. But there were no bad harvests, no rain swept, ruined crops. Crawling along a 2 foot square County Durham coal seam on your belly? – Oh, wow, how good was that? Especially when there was a guaranteed

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wealthy people’s live improved. it’s a toss up about people with no money… there were more jobs, but their working and conditions were more dangerous and their living conditions were about the same.

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Arguably, both. People who didn’t have jobs suddenly had jobs. But the jobs were dangerous and often gave little pay. In an effort to cut back costs, employers tried to cram all the workers into tiny city spaces, and more rural people moved to the city to find work. The industrial revolution also resulted in cheaper goods, as things could be made more quickly and by machine. But this only affected those who could afford these goods, i.e. middle and upper classes and upper working class. It is also worth remembering that the industrial revolution brought about trains, and quicker transport. The lives of of the middle-class and upper-class and businessmen got better, but the lives of farmers, farm-hands and factory workers got worse, with lower pay and cramped, squalid living spaces.

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well that depends on whose life you are referring to. If you mean the industrialists, who owned all the factories, then yes their life got better because there was more productivity and that increased their average income. However, if you want to know about the lives of the factory workers and laborers then their lives were made worse. This is because once the development of cities was underway, all the poor farmers flocked to the cities in order to find better paying jobs. This ‘flocking’ caused a major jump in the labor pool. This then led to the decrease in jobs because because if one laborer was unwilling to work for a certain amount of money, then it was very easy for the employer to go find another, who was currently unemployed, who would be willing to work for the wage – no matter how low it was.

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