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Monday, September 3, 2007

Net Effect of the Industrial Revolution

Negatives:

  • many people lost their jobs
  • factory life was dangerous and dirty
  • factory deaths and injuries
  • working hours were long in factories
  • protesting laborers
  • police shot raging protesters
  • more pollution
  • children had small wages

Positive:

  • life was regulated by clocks
  • products were produced in commodities
  • families got housing if worked in factory
  • families got to work together
  • the public got a larger selection of what they could buy
  • more jobs for people
  • more education
  • cheaper prices
  • much higher quality goods coming from competition

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