(50 points) Write 2-3 paragraphs explaining the overall effect of the Industrial Revolution.
Your answer should be written in paragraph/essay format.
Any sources used should be cited at the bottom of your paper.
All answers should show you have learned something from Unit 9. Material from other units will not be graded for this assignment.
If you are stuck, you can think about the following topics: textile mills, interchangeable parts, the Lowell System, unions, labor reform, steamboats, railroads, coal, the telegraph, and/or new inventions.

Factories, Mines, and Child Labor

The Industrial Revolution created a great deal of change in society.

One major change was the shift from work being done at home by

hand in cottage industries to work being done in factories. There

were harsh and unsafe working conditions in these early factories.

The machines posed a significant threat to workers’ lives. Even more

deadly was work performed in coal mines. Owners of mines and

factories had considerable control over the lives of laborers who

worked long hours for low pay. An average worker would work 14

hours a day, six days a week. Fearful of losing their jobs, workers

would typically not complain about the horrible conditions and low

pay. Owners realized that they could pay women and children less

than men. Child labor increased because it kept the costs of

production low and the profits high. As a result, the working class

lived in poverty, while the bosses who made up the middle class

grew wealthy.

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