Title: What Were the Political Effects of the Industrial Revolution? - LA Progressive
Headings: What Were the Political Effects of the Industrial Revolution?
What Were the Political Effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Urbanization and the Emergence of the Developed World
The Role of Women
Interchangeable Parts
Labor Unions
Kate Harveston
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Content: So, what were the political effects of the Industrial Revolution? Urbanization and the Emergence of the Developed World
As late as the 1730s, most of Europe and America was an agrarian society. People relied on farming the land to make money, which they used to buy the things they needed. However, with the introduction of the spinning loom, steam engine and other early machines, people were increasingly able to do more with less. This led to increased development. A machine could now accomplish the work of several farmhands, so displaced workers went looking for work in the city. The jobs they found were available at newly built factories, aiding in the advancement of industrial technology. This process, called urbanization, led to the rapid development of dense cities in places like New York, Philadelphia and London. Soon, these developed parts of the world began to look quite different from places like Africa, which had not yet received the help of mechanized labor. Rich from the rewards of industrialization, developed nations began investing in operations to pull resources from underdeveloped parts of the world.