Urbanization In The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was to blame when it came to transforming from hand tools to machines and making children work in factories but the most significant of the outcomes is urbanization. Due to urbanization many things had occurred, more people started working in factories, coal mines and worked machinery rather than farming or constructing handicrafts and other agricultural activities. The working conditions, the railroads, transportations systems and the economy had developed and improved greatly because people moved to the urban cities instead of staying in the rural farms. Although at the time urbanization was an awful thing, when we look back at it now, it was one of the best things to have happen as it triggered so many more things to happen in our favour, a positive domino effect as you would call it.
People’s kids moved from their parents’ farms to the cities as they were looking for work. Some children or young adults were forced and other moved voluntarily. Some factors that made people move was the jobs, better life than they had at home and just something different than farming. People who lived in the farms were unaware of how they would be treated in factories. They did not know that they would be beaten, forced to work twelve to sixteen hour says and were paid a very minimal wage. They thought by working in a factory their lives could change, they good make a fair amount of money and spend time with their families. But as people became aware, it was too late to go back to the agricultural age, more and more people suffered during the Industrial Age. But all this led to a positive outcome and now begins the population growth in the cities.
Some people believe that urbanization is a global p...

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...s, they have developed new modes of transportation and improved it so it would be cheap and they also improved the economy. As working conditions improved, wages increased and hours decreased. People shipped the mass amounts of textiles by water to the rest of the British Empire. Also they transported coal and iron by railroads and improved the quality of iron by making it into steel. This improved economy which led to people creating new inventions to improve the society’s problems and to make things easier. Even though at the time urbanization was very impacting public health by making people live or work in polluted places, all of living conditions improved because of a massive food surplus and urbanization in the mid-18th century. Urbanization hasn’t just brought the people to the city; it has brought technology to work simply by the touch of our fingers today.