Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution

Benefits Of The Industrial Revolution

The industrial revolution changed the Western world beyond belief. It changed the structure of families, of work, of how people lived and where they lived. But why did it make such a difference and was this difference good for us?

Families were spread out pretty evenly across the country and you would get areas where generations of families would stay, continuing the family business and handing it down to their offspring. With industrialisation came the use of machines. With machines came the bigger factories, employing more workers. This meant that workers needed to be nearer ...