![]() Women worked for very long hours in poor conditions.Ĭhildren also worked unfortunately some began to work at the tender age of six going underneath the machines picking up little scraps. ![]() Women went from being housewives to working woman. ![]() One of the negative impacts was the labor of women and children. The middle class people believed that they need a raise but employers would use the David Ricardo theory “iron law of wages” which was to always hold wages to the subsistence level if raises were given it would encourage workers to have more children employers used this argument against pay raises. Being as everyone was making money meant that everyone was in the same social class. Which seem to affect the middle class workers. With the many factories opening it provided many opportunities for employment for men and women. The Industrial Revolution also changed the work environment. This transported goods faster and led to more opportunity such as traveling. Roads improved along with railroads and the creation of steamboats advancing transportation. Coal replaced wood and charcoal, steel was created from iron, quicker and cheaper. ![]() The steam engine provided better transportation and allowed the people to travel cheaper, safer and faster. “Newcomen’s invention enabled mines to be drained to greater depths than had previously been economically possible and so helped provide the coal, iron and other metals that were vital to the expansion of industry.” Although he died James Watt refined it with a power source which made it reliable and powerful. ![]()
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