The Industrial Revolution and its Impact
The Industrial Revolution has been viewed as one of the most influential events to occur in the history of modern society. The invention of new machinery items reduced manual labor. Tasks were performed more efficiently causing increased output of products or work performed in less time. The impact of the Industrial Revolution on the world was that it catapulted the world economy into an almost frenzy like state in which people had access to a much wider variety of goods and services offered to them by businesses. The impact that this event had on the worker’s life was not necessarily a good or bad thing, however. With the advent of new, more efficient technology, workers were able to more easily accomplish certain tasks that would have taken them a much longer time to complete before the Industrial Revolution, however there were some serious negative side effects of such a quick influx of technology. With such new practices and ideas put into the workplace, many workers were expected to be as efficient as the new ways of producing a product or service, and as a result, their health and safety were often overlooked. The Industrial Revolution has had lasting effects on the entire population in almost every facet of our lives, as both consumers and workers, and will always be remembered as one of the driving forces behind the way in which the modern economies of the world have been achieved by developed nations.
Life would be completely different had man not developed machinery and the Industrial Revolution had not occurred. It is likely that I would have had a large family with many more brothers and sisters. Larger families were needed as more children could do more duties around the house and farms. I would have likely lived in a rural environment as people needed land on which to grow crops and raise cattle,