Industrial Revolution

Introduction

From its earliest days late in the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution became an ongoing process that spawned continuous changes in virtually every area of society, first in England, and soon after in the United States and elsewhere (Beard & William, p.139). The Industrial Revolution—perhaps more aptly named industrialization—emerged side by side with evolving capitalism and continuing impulses for democracy. It shaped our economy, politics, and culture, while gradually urbanizing our geography and harnessing the land's resources to fuel factories and their outputs. It continues to be a force in the global political economy.

In general, the Industrial Revolution is credited with producing economic surpluses that led to higher living standards, improved health and nutrition, population growth, and longer life spans for large segments of the population. At the same time, the Industrial Revolution was creating immense wealth; however, it also was creating great poverty around the world (Beard & William, p.140). This paper discusses the same that is the major effects of late 1800's industrial revolution in the United States.

Discussion

Industrial revolution brought economic change to the process of product manufacturing, as it begins to operate machinery. It emerged in late eighteenth century in the United States, during the nineteenth century its spread across Europe and around the world later. Its main focus was on the machine, technological innovations, and the use of alternative energy sources, the organization of workers in factories, the division of labor and the need for increasingly large capital (Galbraith, p.73). Causes or Events of Industrial Revolution (IR) The process of innovation that swept through England called by historians the industrial revolution because it was not an expeditious process, but because in a few years led to a radical and profound change in terms of economic and social and marked in decisively the European and world history, ...