Industrial Revolution Response Essay

Katherine Davila
Western Civilization II
Response Essay
10/20/2015
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution began in Britain, took place from the 18th to the 19th century and was a period during mainly agricultural, rural societies in Europe and America because industrial and urban. The term Industrial Revolution was first popularized by the English economic historian Arnold Toynbee to describe England’s economic development from the 1760 to 1840. The main structures involved in the Industrial Revolution were technological, socioeconomic, and cultural. The technological changes included the use of basic material, mostly iron and steel. Secondly there was the use of new energy, electricity, petroleum and the internal combustion engine.

Economic changes resulted in a wider distribution of wealth which increased international trade. Political changes reflected the change in economic power, as well as new state policies which corresponded to the needs of industrialized society. Sweeping social changed including the growth of cities, the growth of working class movement and the emergence of the new patterns of authority and the cultural transformation of broad order. There was also a psychological change in man which made their confidence in the ability to use resourced and to master nature was

Children had always done worked in their own homes with their parents or on land nearby. Children 's work was seasonal so they did still had time to play. When children worked in textile factories they worked for more than 12 hours a day.
In the early 19th century parliament passed laws to reduce child labor. However, they all proved to not be an obligation. The first effective law was passed in 1833 and it was effective do to the fact that for the first time factory inspectors were doing their job to make sure the law was obeyed. The new law banned children under 9 from working in textile factories. The law said that children ages 9 to 13 must not work for more than 12 hours a day or 48 hours a week and children aged 13 to 18 must not work for more than 69 hours a week. Children ages 9 to 13 were allowed 2 hours of education a day.
The coal mines were also terrible as children as young as 5 worked underground. In 1842 a law banned women and boys less than 10 years of age from working underground. In 1844 a law banned all children under 8 of age from working. Then in 1847 a Factory Act said that women and children could only work 10 hours a day in the textile factories. In 1867 the law was extended to all factories and in 1878 the act said that women could not work more than 56 hours a