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The industrial revolution is It begins the period in of time England during which work and began to be then it done more spreads by in all machines in Europe factories than by hand at home The reasons of the revolution: • England was rich of • Agricultural revolution. fossil carbon and iron After the feudalism, the used to feed the owners became machines entreprenours • England lives of wealth • There is the passage and prosperity thanks to from the absolutism to the colonies that produced constitutional the english products government Consequences The farmers moved to towns and they lived in back-to- back houses where there was no sanitation and running water. These conditions took the spreads of deseases such as cholera Exploitation of children and women The children were useful • Women were underpaid because they could be compered to men and in case paid the least and they of death they were replaced were small enough to fix by others to fill the needs of machines. the productive machines • They worked from 12 hours to 16 hours a day The alienation was caused by the division of labour because during the industrial revolution, in the factories, the machines did all the hard work while men did only mechanical and simple activities. Due to this condition the farmers were alienated because they were specialized always on the same task. Because of this, in this period there is the phenomenon of «Ludism» where the workers distroyed all the machines as a sign of protest against the exploitation.
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