The black period of humans by the Industrial Revolution
From the Neolithic, this was XV centuries ago, in approximately 5000 to.C., Humanity had not experienced a series of such important transformations in terms of its economy, its productivity, the appearance of new technologies that lead to a deep transformation of society. In the Neolithic one learned to plant (agriculture appears), domesticate animals (livestock), societies no longer need to be nomads to subsist so what man does. A new model of social organization arises with the appearance of cities and new civilizations, with the industrial revolution another qualitative leap in the way of living will live, a rural manual production system based on agriculture will be passed toAn industrial production system in cities. In the second half of the thirteenth century in England, the 13 British colonies in America had just become independent, a fact that marks the beginning of the Modern Age. It is the time of the liberal revolutions and the overthrow of the old regime. The absolute power of the monarch disappears, the subjects become citizens who will be able to make decisions about their own destiny. The social gap disappears between the privileged and the plain people, with the emergence of a new social class, the bourgeoisie, a revolutionary class facing the estates of the privileged. In England, the parliamentary system ideologically defined by John Locke Locke had been established a hundred years before. Based on the division of powers, the market economy and individual freedom. This model was imitated and adapted by the United States, Spain, France and this is the model that most democratic governments use today. This system provides a level of legal certainty that provided sufficient guarantees for the private entrepreneur. This added to a more open Protestant mentality than in other countries in southern Europe, a period of peace within Great Britain, a good banking system, a certain monetary balance and the absence of inflation made conditions to occur for capitalism andWith this the industry revolution. England also had a geographically strategic and privileged position, had a large naval fleet that called the seas and controlled among others the regions of the Indian subcontinent, an important source of raw materials for its industry, such as the cotton that fed the textile industry. With the birth of the bourgeoisie, the proletariat is also born, these were the workers or workers who provided their services to the bourgeois. The labor circumstances of the workers were still very unstable and insecure with long working days and did not have good sanitary conditions, however, they meant a great advance with respect to previous centuries and times, there was an exodus from the field to the cities. The big cities improved their sewerage and improved health conditions. Epidemics were reduced and Edward Jenner discovered the first smallpox vaccine. Infant mortality was reduced, the consequence was a great demographic explosion. In a century the population of the country tripled, the life expectancy of 35 to 50 increased. Capitalism brought progress and the average salary in England doubled, prices fell and substantially improve the quality of life. Although the standard of living improved in the general field, the great beneficiaries were the bourgeois who went from being a revolutionary social class to a well -off class. The bourgeoisie, whose situation of social privilege is mainly based on fortune, conclusively displaces the landowner aristocracy whose privileges were in their origin or in their bloodstate, but the standard of living of the working class would still have a wide margin of improvement. One of the main technological advances of the Industrial Revolution was the steam engine. The introduction of the steam engine in the different industries was the definitive step in the success of the industrial revolution, since its use meant a spectacular increase in production capacity, by raising the production capacity, the manufacturing time of theproducts, giving way to serial production. Complex tasks are simplified that can be carried out with any worker without having all the necessary requirements and are of good quality. and thus lower production costs and increase the number of units produced. At the end of the industrial revolution, the cities had been transformed. The population of England had tripled, the cities of Birmingham and Manchester prospered as textile cities, mechanical wheels they wove their fabric and their chimneys threw smoke without for. Railroads appeared modifying and spinning the layout of the cities and on the springs springs steamboats. Thus, modifying being a nation that carved the countryside, England had suddenly become the world’s first industrial nation. But all this was only the beginning, since from 1850 we entered the second phase of the revolution known as the second industrial revolution.
conclusion
I consider the industrial revolution as a black period in the history of the human being, if it is true that during this period there were many of the greatest changes in the history of the human being, traveling our societies from rural economies based mainly on agriculture to economiesUrban and industrial, but we cannot ignore that it was also a time of misery, diseases, infernal working conditions, high mortality, child slavery and a lot of dirt. A time, in short, in which the patterns exploited and took advantage of the workers until the exhaustion.
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