INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution permanently changed the social and spatial fabric of the planet, particularly in the societies that now form the economically developed world. Within a century of its inception, industrialization transformed a series of rural poverty-stricken societies into relatively prosperous urbanized ones.

The Industrial Revolution essentially created the modern working class. For the first time in human history, large numbers of workers labored together using machines. These conditions were quite different from those facing agricultural workers, who were dispersed over large spaces and relied on animate sources of energy. Industrialization gave rise to organized labor markets in which ...