Title: The Effects of Urbanization During the Industrial Revolution - Historyplex
Headings: The Effects of Urbanization During the Industrial Revolution
The Effects of Urbanization During the Industrial Revolution
What is Urbanization?
What Happened During the Industrial Revolution?
Effects of Urbanization
Class Divide
Gradual Decline in Standard of Living
Change in Family Structure
Catalyst for Socialist Revolution
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Content: Entrepreneurs as well as industrialists gained enormous wealth due to heavy industrialization. The social structure changed, leading to a divide within different classes in the society. While the working classes were confined to unhealthy living conditions, unsafe working environment, low-paying jobs, etc., the factory owners became rich and powerful by accumulating huge amounts of wealth. Gradual Decline in Standard of Living
Because of the large-scale migration, people who had shifted to the cities from villages, found it quite difficult to adjust in the depersonalized urban environment. This was because, most of the people were used to staying and working in their own farms, and the basic necessities of life-water and food, were easily accessible to them. In the cities however, due to the unprecedented growth in population, there was growing shortage of fresh water. Urbanization put a lot of pressure on the economic as well as governmental systems, which could not handle this growth in population, thus, causing inconvenience to people. Added to this, problems such as unemployment and underemployment were on a rise, thus in turn, lowering the overall standard of living. This could be witnessed with the passage of time, from the enormous growth in the number of slums in the urban areas.