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The industrial revolution was a motivating force in the change of people’s livelihoods that has created many opportunities, offering new technologies and also the ability to create a positive change across social classes. On the other hand, the reality of the matter is that the industrial revolution also had a number of negative impacts, which it would carry on to affect mankind in the future.

The Industrial Revolution was a driving force in the change of people’s livelihoods that created many opportunities, offered new technologies and was able to create positive change across social classes. However, these were not the lasting effects of the Industrial Revolution and that is the total picture. The reality of the matter is that the Industrial Revolution also had negative impacts, which would continue to affect mankind for centuries to come. The Industrial Revolution’s impacts were not merely ‘industrial’, instead they ranged over all aspects of social society. This is quoted in the first article ‘Industrialization was such a wide range in phenomena’ (Mac Leod, 1), and today we see its negative effects before our eyes.

In order to understand the Revolution’s effects, we must first understand how the Revolution came to be. The Revolution’s origins lie in the original ‘Agricultural Revolution’. This was a change in what seemed to be a pan-European issue, which was whenever the population grew to an extent that the agricultural sector could not cope, the population would naturally decrease. However, in 1750, a change was encountered: with a surplus of agricultural crop, the population was actually able to increase parallel to the growth in agricultural. More mouths to feed and jobs full in the agricultural sector, allowed people to experiment with new forms of labor and work, such as industrialization and skilled labor. With these new experiments came more trade within Europe creating further demand for the minimal supply of industrialized goods.

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