With the onset of the industrial revolution came changes in life that effected not only how people lived, but the quality of life as well.
. Len the time before the emergence and growth of industry, goods and services were localized to small towns and villages, and the lives of the people in them revolved around things made and produced there in.In the piece entitled Hard Times by Charles Dickens, the rashness in the practice of child labor is brought to light by emphasizing the word fact and its reference to efficiency to produce. Life before industrialization, was much different for people than life after. Before industry, agriculture was the way of life.
"Throughout most of the 18th century, the leading countries of the Industrial Revolution?those of Europe and the United States?were agricultural societies.Work took place mostly in or near the home, with small farmers producing food to be sold at the local market and artisan craftsmen producing handmade goods to sell to the gibbers. "( Van Tautly, Hubert P. ; Beam, Karl, & Enrich, Kelly(2011) Things in life were not so cut and dry in an agricultural society, there were variables that could have both positive and negative effects on the way things went, such as weather conditions, the health of animals(as they were used to do much of the harder tasks like transporting goods or plowing fields) , and even the amount of daylight as many worked from daylight to dark.Every person in a family often had specific duty's that contributed to the household as a whole. The patriarch would do most of the manual abort, the matriarch handled most of the household duty's, and children tended animals or did light field work.
Industrialization changed things for many people. Not only did it make things easier to produce, but it also put greater divisions in social classes as well. In small villages different people produced different things that were needed by everybody, those that did not produce things offered services to get the things that they in turn needed.With industry factories brought about much change. Peoples lives went from being primarily based around the home, to working or a wage. "Len 1800 more than 40 percent of American workers made their livings in farming, fishing, or forestry, while less than 20 percent worked in manufacturing, transportation, and the like.
By 1870, the share of workers engaged in those agricultural Jobs had dropped to Just 10 percent; during those same decades, the ranks of blue-collar manufacturing workers had risen to more than 60 percent. (FLORIDA, R. (2013) Change however did not necessarily mean good things or people While it is true that every body had a Job dodo on the farm, children in particular ere exploited in the factories of the new industrial world. Dickens piece Hard Times, speaks to the loss of the wonder of youth as perpetuated by the training and to a point brainwashing of young children both male and female, to make them into productive workers with no thought of anything except fact and the Job they are there to do.
"You are to be in all things regulated and governed," said the gentleman, "by fact. We hope to have, before long, a board of fact, composed of commissioners of fact, who will force the people to be a people of fact, and of nothing but fact. You must discard the word Fancy altogether. You have nothing to do with it. You are not to have, in any object of use or ornament, what would be a contradiction in fact.
Van Tautly, Hubert P. Beam, Karl, & Enrich, Kelly(2011) It was all about profit. The idea was (at least by many factory owners of the time), that children made great laborers as they could be manipulated to do needed tasks with little or no pay. "industrialists preferred child labor over adult labor because children make ideal factory workers?they were particularly suited to operate the machines and their tauter was more compatible with the new industrial regime"(Bass, K. (2000).
