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  PHOTO ESSAY ASSESSMENT Mike Ju Uhn Park 9C WH
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  INTRODUCTION              Roughly in1900s, the industrial revolution has shaped the world significantly different from the past. All three factors of society -economic, social and political - were impacted greatly. The Industrial Revolution was a start of magnificent productivity, but also the downfalls of humanity.              Economic factor is very difficult to analyze as different classes have different impact. When the industrial revolution was started, owners of the factories were being wealthier when the laborers were treated like dirt. Owners would fire workers and buy another machine because machines don’t rest, eat, or complain. It was only after the laborer union was created when the workers could be treated properly, especially payment. The machines also gave governments incredible wealth.              How the way people lived has changed the most. Farmers left the farms to work in a factory (urbanization), children were working in factories, and cities were filled with dust and pollution from the factories. New technological inventions and progress have made humans’ lives easier. Moreover, a new class emerged which caused class tension between the workers and owners of factories. The government couldn’t be unaffected by the industrial revolution. As the gap between owners of factories and workers became larger, the Workers’ Union had to be created in order to fight for workers’ rights. Governments first outlawed the union, but since the union wouldn’t care and still strike, they legalized the unions. They also made new laws protecting children and women from massive labor.
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  LABORERS (ECONOMIC) Depicts on the number of workers dismissed after work. The factory owners could exploit the laborers since they only needed a few out of hundreds to control the machines, but later became impossible because the workers would strike as a whole.
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  TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS (ECONOMIC) Shows locomotives powered by steam engines and factories behind. The industrial revolution was the starting point of all innovative inventions such as the world wide web, space technology, and etc.
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  URBANIZATION (SOCIAL) In the picture, it shows an apartment where people lived. As people started to gather in places near factories, they started to form cities. The factories also produced tax revenues, and the government invested on urbanization.
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  WORKING CONDITIONS (SOCIAL) A shirt factory after fire. Just like the picture, the working conditions were very poor. The average life span was about 17 in the cities. It had harsh conditions even for fully developed males, not only women and children.
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  CHILD LABOR (POLITICAL) This picture shows Jo Bodeon, a back-roper in the mule room at a mill. Child labor played a considerable amount of role in industrial revolution. They were favored by the factory owners because their small hands allowed them to work with machines and they could be payed less than adults. Later, the government issued laws requiring specific conditions for children to work.
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  LAWS (POLITICAL) A laborer working at a mine. Mining was essential during industrial revolution because it supplied the factories with fuel. Because of its unhealthy working condition, the government created ‘Mines Act’ to protect children and women. Factory Acts is another example of a law created during industrial revolution.
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  CONCLUSION Healthier diet, formationof cities, hope of improvement, increased average income- are all parts of industrial revolution’s positive effect. Technological inventions have also emerged, enabling today’s world to have computers, robots, spaceships, etc. Although the industrial revolution have gave humanity many benefits, it has also gave us harmful, but redeemable problems. One example would be global warming. The pollution from the inventions during industrial revolution has damaged the O-Zone, and is letting the UV light enter Earth, which is causing global warming. Another is Imperialism. Imperialism fed the Europeans, but made people in other nations, especially in Africa starve. Africa is now the poorest continent due to Europe’s exploitation with it.
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