Essays

The Industrial Revolution

While the Industrial Revolution had both positive and negative effects on society and the economy, the positive effects outweighed the negative. It is true that a lot of bad things came from the Industrial Revolution, mainly for those who lived near the factories, and for the lower classes or children who worked in the factories, but the world as a whole was positively effected by the Industrial Revolution. There were many progressions that happened due to it that brought the world to where it is today and created some pretty spectacular things. However, that doesn't necessarily take away the bad things that has come from it.

One of the biggest problems with the Industrial Revolution was the effect it had on the towns and areas that were closest to the factory mills. Here there were always many people who had immigrated to these places, and it didn't take long for them to get overcrowded. Because of the population problem, there was famine, people living on the streets in tatters, trash everywhere, diseases spreading like rats, oh, and rats of course. This would have been extremely difficult for anyone living around there during those times, and it would not have occurred without the Industrial Revolution.

The Industrial Revolution did good too, however. Because of the Industrial Revolution, the modern world is fortunate enough to have, well, pretty much everything. The revolution started steam powered boats, which brought around steam powered locomotives, and people just kept searching for ways to get products from one place to another faster, and now the world has boats, trains, cars, and even airplanes to do just that. The world needed only to have a reason to need to go faster, and after realizing the transportation system was less than perfect, it was quickly worked on.

The Industrial Revolution helped with the products that were transported too, as people like Eli Whitney and Richard Arkwright invented machines to help make producing popular goods faster, cheaper, and altogether more efficient. These new methods for producing goods helped to make it cost less too for not just the people who were making them, but for the people who were buying them. Forgetting about the cost, the new methods improved the quality of these goods! These various goods were now available to more parts of the world, faster, and better than ever before, thanks to the Industrial Revolution.

There were positives and negatives of the Industrial Revolution, but most of the negative effects were mainly only there around the beginning of the change, and are now fixed; take Manchester as an example. The positive effects though still reach so much of the world even today! Not only that, but the Industrial Revolution encouraged the world to continue trying to improve itself, and now every country works on doing just that with improving the quality of things as efficiently as it had at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. 

- 2 August, 2016