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people moved from rural areas to the cities for jobs; manufactured goods were more readily available to all classes; economies began to grow at a faster rate; and, people ended up working for money rather than for themselves (like a farmer growing his own food), then ended up starting unions to protect themselves from working too much and under poor conditions.

2007-01-10 08:00:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The beneficial aspects of industrialization are continuously celebrated, but they have always been unequally distributed. The production and use of machine-made products belongs to the positive (ortho-modern) aspect of modernity, but inequality and poverty exemplify the negative (para-modern) results. A sense of injustice and oppression, therefore, is a ubiquitous consequence of industrialization. It struck first in the European homelands generating radical political movements and, eventually, single-party dictatorships and genocide on a large scale. As the great industrial powers expanded their empires, more and more victims of inequality appeared, ranging from the African slaves on American plantations who supplied cotton for the new factories to the contract laborers who mined for coal and iron and manned the rubber plantations and paper mills that provided raw materials and energy for increasingly voracious enterprises. Industrialism also produced sabotage, the anti- industrial protests of workers, symbolized by the delusions of alienated proletarians who tried to stop the machines by using their wooden shoes as weapons.
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2007-01-10 07:55:51 · answer #2 · answered by thebattwoman 7 · 0 0

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