Did working practices change for the worse for the working class in the period 1780-1830?
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This was the period when the Industrial Revolution was beginning. The working class were, up to this point, mostly rural farm workers. They would have worked hard in the summer, harder at harvest and less hard in the dark winter months. \nThe Industrial Revolution effected a large scale movement of people to the towns, where they worked in factories, often for very long hours and very little pay. The environemnt they lived in was often polluted and unhealthy (coal dust in coal mining / cotton dust in textile industry)\nThe exploitation of the factory workers was a subject discussed at length by Karl Marx.
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I don't think so.  In a lot of ways, it's a left-over stat from when people mostly had 'traditional' 9-5 in the factory or office jobs.  It has the problems that you pointed out, and I think it also doesn't capture the complexity of modern work.  So many people work part time, temp or contract jobs and aren't counted at all
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The Great Depression of the late 20's and 30's was felt in all western industrialised nations. Nations that were mainly agrarian (based on agriculture) were little affected by it. Here, in Australia, (I'm guessing that you are in the USA) we had most of the workforce unemployed, businesses bankrupt, starvation and poverty rampant - as did all industrialised countries. Now that governments realise that it isn't all that important to balance the budget, they can start to spend, reduce tax or reduce interest rates (use methods to stimulate spending) if they see the economy heading down. These tools stimulate spending and give the economy a boost.heading that way.
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According to Wikipedia ....2!\n\n1) The Industrial Revolution was the major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in late 18th and early 19th century Britain\n\n2)The second industrial revolution (1871–1914)is also called the second phase of the Industrial Revolution, since from a technological and a social point of view there is no clean break between the two.
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Well it will become like that in Western world soon.\nSo I wouldn't worry too much about the comparisons!\n\nWe have already started the trend by employing married/defacto women now for over 35 years.\nSo we are already employing down the chain from the married men only scenario in the 50s and 60s.\nBut the more available workers you allow, the lower bosses can afford to offer their wages, and still have employees that will work for that lower figure!!\nJust like Law of Supply and Demand re price of purchasing Commodity Market's goods and services ... so, too, the Law of Supply and demand re the size of the available Labour market!\nSomething that is RARE is worth its price, but once you make anything plentiful and easy to access, you cheapen it, and in the case of labour, it is offered lower wages.\n\nTHIS IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT KEYS TO THE WEST'S LONGSTANDING ECONOMIC AND HEAVY UNEMPLOYMENT WOES THAT THE ECONOMISTS AND "BRAINS TRUSTS" OF THE WORLD HAVE NEVER QUITE SEEMED TO REALLY GET THEIR TEETH AROUND NOW FOR DECADES!!\nYet, really, it has been like 'missing the Wood for the trees'!!!\n\nWe are making our countries 'Third World' in many ways.\nIt WILL happen as we continue our current social and irreligious trends.\nIn genuine cases, be it Third world or Western, the father alone is not able to earn sufficiently for their large family, and he needs further family assistance due to the lower wage offered to the father; but in most cases, in smaller families, greed for the yacht, 3rd family vehicle, extra TV and swimming pool etc drives out the extra family members into the workforce, and we finish up with other families missing out on the limited employment/jobs.\n\n\nNOW, ACCORDINGLY, YOU ASK:\nWHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF CHILD LABOR STOPPED?\n\nWell, as we've discussed, there would be a very, very DESPERATE labor shortage!\n\nNow, why is it [we've said] that are diamonds so Precious and expensive?\n\nANSWER:  Because they are so RARE!\nRARITY puts the costt of anything up!\n\nIf the Child labor was eliminated, the cost of Labour [wages] would suddenly  SKY-ROCKET!!!!!!!!!\n\nFathers would be able to keep their families on their wages!\n\n\nNow let's see the West do something about their cheapening of our labour here by eliminating married/defacto women from the Work Force!!!
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There were but the practice ended in the 19th century
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Benefits:\nThe invention of the steam engine was one of the most important innovations of the industrial revolution. This was made possible by earlier improvements in iron smelting and metal working based on the use of coke rather than charcoal. Earlier in the 18th century the textile industry had harnessed water power to drive improved spinning machines (see spinning jenny) and looms (see flying shuttle). These textile mills became the model for the organisation of human labour in factories\n\nIndustrialisation also led to the creation of the factory. \n\nThe Industrial Revolution could not have developed without machine tools, for they enabled manufacturing machines to be made. \n\ntextile Manufacturing\n\nMining Industry and Metallurgy Industry\n________________________________________________\n\nHarmful Effects:\n1. Child Labor\nChild labour existed before the Industrial Revolution, and in fact dates back to prehistoric times, but during the Industrial Revolution it grew far more abusive than ever before.[1] Politicians tried to limit child labour by law. Factory owners resisted -- they felt that they were aiding the poor by giving their children work from the age of five years onward. In 1833 the first law against child labour, the Factory Act of 1833, was passed in England: Children younger than nine were not allowed to work, children were not permitted to work at night and the work day of youth under the age of 18 was limited to twelve hours. Factory inspectors supervised the execution of this law. About ten years later, the employment of children and women in mining was forbidden. These laws improved the situation; however child labour remained a problem in Europe up to the 20th century.\n\n2 Housing Situation\n\n3 Luddities\nThe rapid industrialization of the English economy cost many craft workers their jobs. The textile industry in particular industrialized early, and many weavers found themselves suddenly unemployed since they could no longer compete with machines which only required relatively limited (and unskilled) labour to produce more cloth than a single weaver. Many such unemployed workers, weavers and others, turned their animousity towards the machines that had taken their jobs and began destroying factories and machinery. These attackers became known as Luddites, supposedly followers of Ned Ludd, a folklore figure. The first attacks of the Luddite movement began in 1811. The Luddites rapidly gained popularity, and the British government had to take drastic measures to protect industry.
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personally. women of yesterday are greater than us now. they had more strict standards to live by and they probably had a lot more pressure and expectations from men.
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Well you are demonstrating it with the horrible spelling and syntax you used in your question unless that was intentional.\n\nI overall disagree with your premise. I don't think we have become more stupid. There is a significantly greater amount of information required of a person today than there was 200 years ago. Further formal education hardly existed in the country prior to the 1860's. If you are looking at a test from that period it most likely was from a private academy where then, as now, students were put up to more vigorous standards.\n\nAdditionally, most young people completed their education by the age of 14 and were moved into apprentice programs to learn a trade. The number of young men, remember most young ladies were excluded from formal schooling, who actually attended college were minute when compared to today's world.\n\nMost people in this country never received a formal education and the level of illiteracy was in excess of 50%. As opposed to today when the level is less than 20% for adults.
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Hi, check out this website.  It has tons of info on clothing from the 1830's.  It has pictures of the clothes as well.  Hope this helps.  Good luck.
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Not very long. The north was far more industrialized the the agrarian south. What the person above said is true as well.
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In a nutshell: It was a period of dramatic transition when our country went from an agrarian economy to on industrialized one. What that means is, instead of most people working on farms growing and making most of what they needed, urban life became more the norm; with people working in factories and the like and purchasing most of what they needed.
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Well, the early colonies didn't have techonoly, cars, music like today, movies, clothes, food, the knowledge, and the books that we have today. There are PLENTY of changes from today and the colonies. It's pretty simple if you sit down and think about it.
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None. All professions have been changed in some form or another by IT. Even monks. And candle makers... publishers..mine workers....etc. etc. However, the Amish might be another story.
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NO, for alot of the former slaves that remained in the south, it was a hard time, alot tried to work for their former masters, but what the yankees hadn't destroyed the carpetbaggers robbed  by extremely high property taxes. alot of times the former master and former slave worked side by side to try to make a living. the yankee carpetbaggers that robbed the land hired the former slaves, on a kind of share crop, but the odds were stacked against the share cropper and the carpetbagger made more money, it was actually slavery, because no matter how hard they worked, the carpetbagger would charge them more. Some of the former slaves that went north, faired better, but their was resentment among the northern people from the former slaves taking jobs away from them.
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Throughout the ages there have been events that have shaped the world that we now know. Events such as the Agricultural Revolution, the Reformation, the Renaissance and the French and American revolutions have all played a part each in their own little way in moulding the society we now live in. However no event has had as far reaching consequences for future generations as the Industrial Revolution.\n\nThe topic for discussion in this essay is “The Industrial Revolution was the most significant event in the making of the modern world”. The term “modern world” refers to world we live in today including its politics, social class structure, economies, environment and technologies among many other things.  This essay will outline the impact the Industrial Revolution had on creating the “modern world” and will therefore prove that the “The Industrial Revolution was the most significant event in the making of the modern world.”\n\nThe pre-industrial economy in England was very different to the post-industrial. The English economy was “dominated by fairly primitive agriculture and construction”1 as were most. Peter Mathias (1969) also refers to the fact that “technology in agriculture, industry or transport remained subjected to the interruptions of nature”2. There was an attempt to integrate technology into agriculture but however “frost, flood, gale, or calm the wheels did not turn”3. This led to an inefficient system and low productivity rates and therefore “not much shipping put out of port between October and March”4. The weather also meant that there was “not much work available on the land in bad weather in some of the winter months”5 and “building activity declined in the winter”6.\n\nThis all changed with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The exact timeframe of the Industrial Revolution is not known but T.S. Ashton, a historian, author, and former professor of economic history at University of London7 held the term “Industrial Revolution” refers to the period between 1760-18308.  The term “Industrial Revolution” was however not coined until the second half of the 19th century by Friedrich Engels and Louis-Auguste Blanqui9. \n\nThe exact catalyst for the beginning of the Industrial Revolution is contentious and a topic of great debate. The Industrial Revolution was a result of  “many fundamental, interrelated changes that transformed agricultural economies into industrial ones” mainly the nature of production10. It was a period during which England gradually moved from muscle and water power to more efficient mechanised power i.e. steam powered engines.\n\nHowever, the long lasting effects of the Industrial Revolution aren’t just isolated to the industry as its name suggests. The Industrial Revolution also had socioeconomic, cultural and environmental impacts which helped form the world we live in. In fact the Industrial Revolution is considered to be so important in forming the modern world that it is comparable to the Agricultural Revolution in the Fertile Crescent in around 3000 B.C.E11.\n\nSocioeconomic impacts of the Industrial Revolution were far reaching from population growth to social class structure from social control to working and living conditions.  \n\n- That's part of an essay I did for uni That's the industrial revolution. Sorry if it has nbothing to do with the question. I hope it gives a backgound. I was just trying to help. :)
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The Industrial Revolution influenced the economic and social life of present society because of the simple fact that it was considered a REVOLUTION. Because of the different advances in technology and ideology behind advancing in both education and science. The Industrial Revolution changed a great deal of things that has instilled a sense of wanting more and more today in all fields of science. The economy boomed because of faster production rate and easier manufacturing, and social life changed drastically from making things at home to going to department stores. Agriculturally, economically, socially, and ideologically... The Industrial revolution has influenced the way ALL countries today have tried to succeed in becoming world powers.\n\nFeel Free to take this... this is the "get a good grade but dont bore the hell outta everyone" answer