The Industrial Revolution

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The paper discusses how the Industrial Revolution changed social familial relations and the economy, introduced a working class and made new ideas and concepts very popular in Great Britain. The paper suggests that innovation is likely the greatest conceptual product of the Industrial Revolution. The paper concludes that the Industrial Revolution is best described as a period of great growth and change, which created positive ramifications many years down the road for the entire globe, but which also came at a very high cost of human suffering.

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"During the late 18th and early 19th Centuries, a period of dramatic change took place in Great Britain that is known as the Industrial Revolution. The term is thought to have been developed through comparing the rapid social and economic changes in Britain to the French Revolution, which was also a period of great change, although of a different form (Hudson 2004: 33). A variety of factors led people living in England and Wales to begin moving from their rural homes into new urban areas to seem employment in factories instead of working on the rural farms. The massive migration of people into urban areas and the rapid development of technology and infrastructure created historically unique changes in the way individuals lived their lives. The Industrial Revolution was a time period in which social familial relations changed, the economy switched from being based in agriculture to manufacturing, a working class developed and new ideas and concepts became very popular."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cunningham, Hugh. 1990. "The employment and unemployment of children in England c. 1680-1851." Past and Present, 126: 115-50
• Hobsbawm, Eric J. 1999. Industry and Empir: From 1750 to the Present Day . New York: New Press.
• Hudson, Pat. 2004. Industrial Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press.

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