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The Industrial Revolution

There were a number of factors from technology to changing views on human nature that led to the socioeconomic movement known as the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain during the nineteenth century. The Industrial Revolution basically defines the period when there was a change in social and economic organization resulting from the replacement of hand tools by machine and power tools. This development of large scale industrial production took place in England starting at about 1780, (Industrial, p. 669). The word ôRevolutionö in this case should not be taken as a sudden change that took place. The Industrial Revolution is more of an economic process that took place over time. However the Industrial Revolution changed the face of the world forever.

First it changed the face of England. Areas that for centuries had been cultivated as open fields or had lain untended as common pasture were hedged and fenced. Chimney stacks from factories began to dot the horizon. Roads were built and made stronger, straighter and wider. In the north, great railways were laid down to give way to the new locomotives. Steamboats began to float the narrow seas. Changes in society mirrored the changes in the landscape. The number of people increased. The growth of the population shifted new communities to the North and the Midlands. Immigrants poured in from Scotland and Ireland. People born and raised in the traditional countryside came to live crowded together as units in the labor force of factories. The work they did became specialized and new skills needed to be learned. New sources of raw materials began to be exploited. It was such resources that represented the most significant transformation, ôOf all the changes, perhaps the most revolutionary came at the very root of human endeavor: new forms of energyö (Industrial, p. 669).

Before the Industrial Revolution most people made their living by working on the land. Condit...

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