IMPACTS OF INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Impacts of the Industrial Revolution in the Great Britain

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Impacts of the Industrial Revolution in the Great Britain

Introduction

The period of the industrial revolution in the Great Britain is said to range from 1760 to about 1830. During this period major changes occurred in the Great Britain that completely revolutionised the Great Britain and the society. The drastic improvements occurred in the industry with the development of the steam engine. This resulted in an influx of capitalism whereby the investors started to make huge investments in industry. The textile and the coal industries were the largest impacted. As a result, Great Britain also experienced an unprecedented influx of workers from the rural areas which resulted in urban migration as well as overpopulation in the cities. These cities experienced workers working in factories that included women and children too. The industrial revolution saw the starting of the child labour in industries. The industrial revolution completely transformed the Great Britain of the time as well as the world through its far-reaching impacts. However, it was a major watershed in British history that transformed the way the society and the economy existed in the Great Britain of the time.

Impacts of the Industrial Revolution in the Great Britain

Enclosure movement

The enclosure movement started during the Industrial revolution whereby the lands ownership rights were redefined such that the land owners were allowed to enclose their lands with the creation of fences, walls or hedges. However, it was the complete removal of communal rights while the owner was granted the exclusive rights to the use and control of land as well as to the access to it. In this way, the owned land was called the severalty and was the sole possession of the owner. However, the movement also characterized otherwise fenced lands which were actually common and those unfenced lands which in the severalty of some person.

The enclosure movement was made up of two different movements in which one movement was the reorganisation movement for field and meadow lands while the other movement was the reclamation movement of the common and waste lands.

The enclosure movement was backed by certain social, political and economic benefits and reasons associated with it. The social reason for the enclosure movement was that it was aimed to principally create a class-based social structure whereby the elite class was allowed to emerge while distinguishing the other classes. The political reasons revolve around the need of the landowners to generate more revenues from their lands through enclosures and their ulterior motives to take the land owned by the peasants.

The economic reasons for enclosure were firstly that the enclosure provided the landowner to generate more grain from the land. In addition, the interest rates and the inflation factors of the Great Britain of the time were also relevant. The landowners were able to get easy financing in times of rapid inflation in the form of mortgages for lands. Consequently, they were able to benefit from these financial arrangements such ...