Question

Advantages and disadvantages of industrial revolution

Answer 1

Answer:

Disadvantages

1. pollution
2. expensive

Answer 2

The major advantage of the Industrial Revolution was that it was the beginning of a wave of new material goods that could be used to improve people’s lives.  Early in the Industrial Revolution, for example, cloth came to be made much more cheaply than it had been before.  This helped people’s lives because it allowed them to have more clothes than they could previously afford (at a time when people did not often have very much clothing).  The Industrial Revolution later brought about many more kinds of goods as well.

The major disadvantages were largely social.  The Industrial Revolution brought huge numbers of people out of the countryside and into big cities to work in factories.  Their jobs were often dangerous and did not pay much.  They lived in very poor housing conditions.  The cities were very dirty and dangerous, both in terms of health hazards and in terms of crime.  People were often disconnected from the extended families who had previously helped them with their lives.