The Industrial Revolution that began in Europe in the mid-1700s changed society in many ways. Some of these were positive while others were negative. In the second half of the 19th century, it was the fundamental change in the way goods were produced through the use of machines, capital, and the centralization of work forces in factories. The Industrial Revolution helped advance Europe and greatly altered the world.
Initially, most tasks were done by hands and in farms before the Agricultural Revolution freed laborers from farming to operating machines in factories. Farmers had to move to cities due to many prosperous landowners buying their property and making them become tenant farmers or letting them move to urban areas to find a suitable job in factories. Farmers grew larger as wealthy landowners brought land from poor landowners who became tenant farmers. Those left with no land moved to town. Thus, farmers started to seek …show more content…
First and foremost, new machines were created to help make products faster and cheaper. This was known as mass production. Mass production led to an increase supply of goods by numerous people working together on different tasks. Once the task was completed it was put together and people had greater accessibility to what they were looking for when these items were sold. For example in Doc 1, it shows machines were more sophisticated which made the cloth faster. This proves that numerous people got jobs in factories and their wages increased. When their wages increased, they were able to afford good things or basic necessities to survive (doc 2). A machine used to increase textile production was the flying shuttle, it increased speed of weaving. Another machine was the power loom created by Edward Cartwright, this was water powered and it automatically wove thread into cloth. These machines were a great start for more advancements in the