The Industrial Revolution

Industrialization is the process of developing machine production of goods. But it is also an outgrowth of capitalism and it's effects on society are still undetermined to some content.

The revolution required a lot of natural resources, water power and coal to fuel the new machines. They needed an Iron ore to construction machines, tools, and buildings, Rivers for inland transportation, Harbors from which merchant ships set sail, new innovations. They used science to make money. It was the beginning of working people in cities and around the world.

The Industrial Revolution started in England in the 1700's. Farmers moved from the country to the cities. The more machines the more people they can feed and get people and children to work in the factories. Rich land owners could buy family farms and be pushed into the cities and start work here. So the population exploded, the increasing population boosted the demand for food, land, and clothes.

Farmers were pushed off their land and had no where to go but the cities and find jobs there. But with all the factories and the more people moving to the city there became massive pollution problems, and children from age 5 and older forced to work in the factories and they weren't rich they were poor and didn't have much of a choice and most of the children that worked in factories died. Because of the farmers moving from the country to the city there became a major lack of housing. With all these problems there were many solutions to reduce those problems but they didn't focus on them. They could have spread there factories around and introduced it to other societies and wouldn't have so much pollution in one area but they could have found more ways to reduce the pollution.

The transition could have been less difficult if they didn't push so fast and so hard. If they had put factories further a part then they were and if they hadn't pushed most of the farmers off their farms. If they had kept more farmers on their farms they would have more reasons to have more factories. The rich land owners put up fences around the farms that they bought from the farmers, to hide the science they were coming up with and didn't want others to steal their ideas. The land owners shouldn't have pushed so fast because then they would have bought the farm but also kept the farmer and his family and workers then they wouldn't have to let anyone else into see what they were doing. That would have protected some children from the factories in the cities. I think that most of the children that were forced to work in the factories were from farms, that had been bought by land owners.