Social Effects Of The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was long represented by its historians and many of its students as a “sudden and violent” change that started an age of economic exploitation and social unrest. Scholars thought the revolution began in the late eighteenth century. There were steam engines attached to new machines in the textile mills of central and northern England. It led to the crowding of people into the slums of factory towns, a situation that was worse than before. This crowding saw many problems such as bad health and stress. There, the workers were forced by many new capitalists to work long hours under rotten conditions. As Tonynbee, who was a famous historian said, “The effects of the Industrial Revolution prove that free competition may