Industrial Revolution Working Class

Being known as the time of drastic changes in technology and the impressive progress, the Industrial Revolution was one of the factors that have contributed to the modern society. Nevertheless, it was proven to have not only caused the positive shift in the flow of the history but also to affect the working classes leading to dramatical exhaustion of the human recourse. The industrialization was aimed at making people richer and making their lives easier for them while the harsh conditions in which the working classes had to live proved that the reforms could not appear of much help to the working people bringing even more undesired conditions.
First of all, the introduction of machines at the factories should have benefited the working class by reducing the volume of work that was to be performed. However, the Middle-Class representatives and the factories' owners felt that they might become more powerful, and hindered the laws that would ease the lives of the working class. For example, one of the mine owners claimed that “It is impossible that the machinery could produce as much work in ten hours as in twelve”, which meant that in any case people had to work along the machines …show more content…
The extreme changes of machinery introduction were both beneficial and disadvantageous for the working class since the working time did not become shorter and the conditions of work changed to worse combined with low wages. Besides, the middle class also contributed to the impairment of the situation as far as they hindered valuable reforms, including allowing the workers to form unions or to petition employers for higher wages or better conditions, that could improve and ease the life of the working class. Nevertheless, the Industrial Revolution was a crucial period in the history and provided a ground basis for the modern