Question

How industrialization brought social change?

Answer 1

SOCIAL CHANGES- The industrial revolution had far reaching social consequences, which varied across class and regions. Between the late 18th and early 20th centuries, (i)new family and class structures emerged to adjust to the new wage economy and production shifted out of the house to large scale production in factories. (ii)Industrialization also caused population migration from rural areas to urban areas, as factory emerged around towns. Marvin Perry says in 1800, about 10% of the Europeans lived in cities. But by 1850 this increased to -52% of Englishmen living in cities, 25% Frenchmen and 36% Germans. As rural production couldn’t compete with cheaper factory production, rural workers moved to work in factories.


IMPACT ON CLASS STRUCTURE: Industrialization and capitalism greatly impacted class structure. Marvin Perry says industrialization of Europe destroyed forever the old division of society into clergy, nobility and commoners and led to the creation of a new class the working class and the growth of the middle class or bourgeoisie.