Negative Outcomes Of The Industrial Revolution

Negative Effects of the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution has had more negative effects on the world community rather than positive because many of the outcomes did not benefit majority of the people. Many of the creations and outcomes that came from the Industrial Revolution had negative effects on the people, jobs, and nature. The positive outcomes of the revolution did not truly show during, but afterwards.
The first issue of the Industrial Revolution was that British textile inventions led to more factories being made in Britain. Machines such as John Kay’s flying shuttle (1733), James Hargreave’s spinning jenny (1764), and Richard Arkwrights water frame (1769) sparked the textile industry. A negative effect of this was the decrease of the need for village workers. Rich land owners progressed with enclosure, which took over the land that was previously shared with peasant farmers. As more and more acres of land were enclosed, fewer fields needed farmers. Many of them were forced off their land because they could not compete with large landowners. The farmers fled towards industrial cities where there they could tend the machines.
Along with the rapid building of factories, rapid urbanization occurred as well. With many people moving to the city to work, they did not have many options as to where to live. They were forced to live in overcrowded slums. The people did not have public water supply, and human waste filled the unpaved streets-which made it very easy for disease to spread speedily. As there was no public water supply, water came from the Thames River, which was filled with sewage and industrial waste. With the people consuming the filthy water, a disease called Cholera killed up to 400 Londoners per