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Industrial Revolution and a Changing Europe


Mind the fact that young girls and women had to participate in this hard labor for at least twelve to sixteen hours a day. To only go to sleep and then get up early the next day to do it all over again. "Infants of four and five years of age, many of them girls, pretty and still soft and timid; entrusted with the fulfillment of responsible duties, the very nature of which entails on them the necessary of being the earliest to enter the mine and the latest to leave it" (Sybil). As you can see the young and what you would think immature, were entrusted with such responsibilities that adults should have. To many, industrialization meant increased production of goods that would require more manpower within the factory. Thus drawing mostly young children into the work field at times where children should not be working, but should be receiving an education. Another Precursor to the Industrial Revolution was capital. Prior to industrialization in England, land was the primary source of wealth.
             The selected few entrepreneurs and investors were the only ones who would make a descent amount of money by investing in factories and paying their employers on an extremely cheap scale. Payment was simply unfair for all those a part of the working class. The living conditions in urban industrial settings were a popular subject for reformers. "Thus thousands of families, which formerly gained an independent livelihood on those separate farms, have been gradually reduced to the class of day laborers" (Davies). Living conditions left many who were a part of the working class down in the dirt. They had to settle for a place that they could afford. Limited technology and transportation were precursors that lead to industrialization in society. Technology needed to advance in order to create new machines that would lessen the workload for those factory workers. Also, methods of transportation needed to come about to increase trade in order to bring new goods into the country at a faster and efficient way.


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