The First Industrial Revolution occurred from 1780-1850 and changed the way people lived and worked worldwide. New technologies and manufacturing processes were changing lives across the globe. These synergistic advances led to more developments and social consequences began to arise. The way people worked was changing as well as the way they would live.
Urbanization was one significant social consequence that was caused by the First Industrial Revolution. Urbanization is the growth of a city, and broadly the transition from the majority of the population living in rural circumstances and working agriculture, to living in urban circumstances, and working in industrial jobs. Before the Industrial Revolution began, people were mostly living in rural communities and agricultural was still one of the main trades. As factories began to arise and new machinery was introduced that greatly sped up production, more and more people began to leave their rural communities and transition into cities where the uprising factories were located. Because of this rapid movement, cities began to expand in population at a rapid rate. Although this change was stimulating the booming industries such as textiles, steel, chemicals and food production, it also brought along negative effects in which people were facing living in crowded areas for the first time. These areas were often dirty and polluted and constituted a big change for those who made the merger. Most of the people who were migrating into these areas to seek work in factories were coming from rural areas in which that completely opposite to the city life. Not only were people having to transition into a different style of life where they were living amid a large population in tight, centralized area, they were also faced with sewage issues and poor sanitation concerns. The death rate in the city was substantially higher than