Industrialization Dbq

The industrialization of Great Britain led the planet with modern technology because of their ample amount of natural resources and their political stability. With multiple entrepreneurs looking for innovative machines and capital to invest in those machines, they continued to demonstrate to the world they were the leaders in urbanization at that time. While some might argue that Industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because of modernized machines, it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization’s negative effects were child labor, separated families, and bad quality of life.
During the Industrial Revolution not only did grown men and women have to work laborious jobs, children had to as well. “C:

B: When I was six years old…Do you consider doffing a laborious employment? B: Yes.”(Document 7) Elizabeth Bentley, twenty-three at the time of her testimony, shared that she began working a laborious job at an incredibly young 6 year old. During the 1800s, grown men and women had to work difficult jobs for long hours, and it seems that children were no exception. At that time, a large amount of children were not being educated because they had to work at young ages for a long time. This caused them agony and incurable medical issues because of the lack of care for the people’s wellbeing. Bentley also mentions that she was constantly on her feet and was considerably deformed because of it. (Document 7) She started working at a young age and consequently gained a deformity because of it just as many other children did. This helps give reasons as to why there should

Document 3 contains a picture of factory polluting the air from the coal; the factory is also next to a small body of water, which suggests water pollution as well has agricultural issues from watering the crops. (Document 3) This contributes to people’s awful quality of life because of the severe pollution causing illness and lack of nutrition. Not only does the contaminated water cause atrocious quality of life, but so does the air pollution. It is possible that a vast amount of people in that town suffered from respiratory issues because of the smoke there were inhaling; especially people living in close proximity. The picture in Document 6 shows a crowded household and close neighboring rooms and buildings. (Document 6) Considering the houses are very close together, there is a strong risk of spreading illness. The poor quality of the picture does not show all of the details of the picture, but based on multiple recorded experiences during that time, one can assume the housing was not in decent shape. Not only were people forced to live in cheap, unhealthy housing, they also gained an abundant amount of medical issues because of their jobs. “It is very common to have weak ankles and crooked knees? B: Yes, very common indeed…C: Where are you now? B: In the poorhouse.” (Document 7) Elizabeth Bentley testifies that she was a victim of poor quality of life