Explain the impact of industrialisation on the workers . In long way.
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printer outburst during the 1830 revolution was not the first time workers struck out against machines, nor would it be the last. After the revolution, outbursts occurred among female shawl-workers, tobacco workers, and other skilled artisans.
In fact, "there were 89 strikes in Paris 1830-3, 30 of them in 1830" (Magraw, 53).
Anger at industrialization was reflected in and a main motivator of the workers' participation in the revolution of 1830. French workers were angered by the industrialism taking place during the nineteenth century. They felt that their world was changing and being overtaken by machines. Although the industrial growth in France was not nearly as close to that of England, it did transform the French economy, altering the orginization of workplaces and patterns of inequality. The economic change in the mid-nineteenth century "produced a more cohesive and politically organized working class, [with] a political agenda increasingly dominated by issues of economic inequality and expressed in a language of class" (Aminzade, 4).
The working class' political views were shaped by their economic standing. The workers' "republican socialist discourse of the early 1830s was . . . the creative response of artisanal craftsmen faced with harsh new political and economic realities" (Aminzade, 44).
Although factories, like that to the left did not exist throughout France, their presence and economic consequences were felt by the French workers at an early stage.
Industrialization was a phase during which complex new tools developed and brought drastic changes in the society. Industrialization had less of positive and more of negative impacts on the lives of the workers. The only positive impact that industrialisation had on the lives of the people was that it provided people with employment.
The Negative impacts of Industrialisation are:
1}Abundance of labor: As the news of employment spread in the rural areas thousands of workers moved to towns and cities. As a result of this the actual possibility of getting employed now depended upon social links. Any person who had his/her relatives working in the factories had a better chance of getting employed than other people.
2}Seasonality of Work: In many industries the work was seasonal, hence when the working season was over people had to again start looking for work. Many people moved back to rural areas as employment opportunities opened up while many stayed and looked for odd jobs.
3}Housing Problem:Many of the people had to sleep under the bridges while many stayed at night refugees.
4}High Prices of Goods: There was an increase in the wages of the workers. But, this increase in wages was met by an increase in the prices of goods as well thus making it difficult for poor people to manage their basic facilities
5}Fear Of Unemployment: Fear of unemployment made people hostile towards the new machines.
Example: Women in the weaving industry attacked the spinning jenny...
OTHER POINT YOU CAN INCLUDE:
- Increased the social gap between the rich and poor