What contributed most to the growing gap between social classes during the Industrial Revolution?
A.increase in leisure timeB.population growth in citiesC.growth of the middle classD.lack of skilled labor
Answers
Growth of middle class is the right answer.
Before Industrial Revolution, there were generally two classes - aristocracy and Commons, the latter include merchants, professionals and farmers. But due to Industrial Revolution farmers turned to factory labors and merchants and professionals into factory owners and capitalists. The factory owners and capitalists came to be known as Middle Class. They became more and more wealthy and their children began to receive high cost formal education. They began to invest more and more and became very rich.They began to live a luxurious life in big palaces.On the other hand, there was no progress of labors and were not able to provide formal education to their children. They hardly make their both ends meet and were living in slums. It thus widened the gap between the social classes.
Amid the Industrial Revolution, just the affluent could contribute and creation means, for example, manufacturing plants were in their grasp.
As time passed by rivalry had the most focused have the less aggressive go bankrupt.
This is the thing that clarifies the rise of Corporations that the 1890 Sherman Act attempted to separate unsuccessfully.