What is the negative and positive effects of the Industrial Revolution?

Question

Modern World History from chapter 9

Answer 1

Well, everyone's answers seem to be around the lines of child labor, money and pollution. Those are all good answers, but kind of obvious. On a broader and more historically moving note, the world became a whole lot smaller. With advent of the steam engine allowed people to travel the world cheaply and safely compared to before. So no, rather than reading about the far off worlds and only dreaming of them, they could actually see the sights for themselves. They could also communicate very quickly. Prior to the steam engine, it would take many months for a letter to get from say Moscow to Dallas. After things like trains were created it could be done in weeks. We face the same crisis today with things like the Internet. Now you can look at pictures on-line of far off planets, send instant e-mails to people on the other end of the earth, and use satellites and web cams to feel like you are sitting in the same room as someone far away. This can be interpreted as a positive and a negative aspect of the industrial revolution, but as they say, its all relative.

Answer 2

RE:
What is the negative and positive effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Modern World History from chapter 9

Answer 3

The negative impacts were that:
1 There was a lot of environmental pollution.
2 The home textile workers were put out of work.
The positive impacts were that:
1 The people who were unemployed get good jobs in the industries.
2 The thing were made and processed easily and fastly.
3 The rate of employment gets high and the rate of unemployment get low

Answer 4

there are lots of positives and negatives
A big negative is an increase of environmental damage. The factories were powered by coal- the smoke from the factories turned pretty much everything black in the UK. Also durring this time there was a mass movement of people from the farms into the cities where they could make more money in the factories.

A positive is that it created a huge middle class. Before the IR there was the lower class which consisted of most people and then there was the few people who made up the wealthy upper class that pretty much controlled everything. As the poor people began to work in the factories, they made more money, which gave them more power. The new middle class began to demand rights, they wanted to vote (before only land owners could vote.) However this created a new problem- you can't have uneducated people voting, it can be dangerous. As a result mandatory education was introduced for everyone. Hope this helps

Answer 5

POSITIVE:
The Industrial Revolution changed the ways by how the world produced its goods. It also changed our societies from a mainly agricultural society to one that in which industry and manufacturing was in control. During this time there were also many new technological advancements, socioeconomic and cultural problems that arised. On the technology front, the biggest advancements were in steam power. New fuels such as coal and petroleum, were incorporated into new steam engines. This revolutionized many industries including textiles and manufacturing. Also, a new communication medium was invented called the telegraph. This made communicating across the ocean much faster. The Industrial Revolution was a time of dramatic change, from hand tools and handmade items, to products which were msass produced by machines. Workers became more productive, and since more items were manufactured, prices dropped, making exclusive and hard to make items available to the poor and not only the rich and elite. Life generally improved,

NEGATIVE:
The industrial revolution also proved harmful. Pollution increased, working conditions were harmful, and with the employed of women and young children, making them work long and hard hours. Along with the great leap in technology, there was an overall downfall in the socioeconomic and cultural situation of the people. Growth of cities were one of the major consequences of the Industrial Revolution. Many people were driven to the cities to look for work, in turn the ended living in the cities that could not support them. With the new industrial age, a new qauntitative and materialistic view of the world took place. This caused the need for people to consume as much as they could. This still happens today. Living on small wages that required small children to work in factories for long days.
The Industrial Revolution, was not a good revolution for the planet. From the time of its start, the factories and industry has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by two-folds. Also in our drive for consumerism, our planets natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate. Pollution by nuclear waste, pesticides and other chemicals are also the result of the Industrial Revolution.


POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
The Industrial Revolution was a dramatic change in the nature of production in which machines replaced tools, steam and other energy sources replaced human or animal power, and skilled workers were replaced with mostly unskilled workers. The Industrial Revolution resulted in work that had been performed in the home by family members, such as spinning yarn, being performed with the help of large powerful machines in factories, such as the early textile mill. The Industrial Revolution permitted trends begun in the domestication revolution and agricultural revolution to continue, resulting in still greater inequality

Answer 6

It would take a whole essay to explain it all, but in a nutshell:
Negative: smog and child labor
Positive: technological advancement and a move away from an solely agricultural society.

Answer 7

industrial revolution took place first in britain and they were selfish tryed there best to keep this with them but later on it spread through out the world.
negative results:

Answer 8

negative: it increased pollution

positive: it created jobs and improved our economy