Impact Of Industrialization On Europe
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Industrialization in Europe is one of the greatest outcomes of the nineteenth century. Four areas of society that changed dramatically due to industrialization are changes in technology, urbanization, and working class life. Industrialization changed European society both positively and negatively. In this essay I will chronicle the three areas and list positive as well as negative effects of industrialization on the people of Europe.
Technology consisted of inventions that changed the way production occurred. These inventions improved the way goods were produced. Machines such as the cotton gin, water frame, power loom, and spinning jenny allowed textile products to be produced in mass quantities. Without question the most well known cotton related invention was Eli Whitney’s cotton gin which removed seeds from raw cotton quickly. There was great demand for cotton...