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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on the Industrial ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Revolution ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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The Industrial Revolution was a period in history when mankind found
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innovative and efficient ways of producing goods, manufacturing services
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and creating new methods of transportation. This not only revolutionized
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the way the market system functioned, but also changed the way people
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perceived their status in society and what they required as basic
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necessities. However, the price that humanity was forced to pay for the
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emergence of the Industrial Revolution greatly outweighed the rewards that
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it brought alongside its origin.
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Prior to the Industrial Age, the Western European market operated on a
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simple "putting-out" system. The average producer was able to manufacture a
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product in the same area that he or she lived on and the demand for that
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product was usually set by a few local consumers. The process was easy and
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simple, provided that the product being created was always required by
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someone else. However, the invention of Machinery and all of its
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accompanying peripherals allowed producers to start manufacturing on a mass
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scale. With factories placed in central locations of the townships (known
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as centralization), the previous system was dismantled and categorized into
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steps. No longer would one person be required to build, market or transport
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their product since the new system introduced the art of specialization.
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Specialization allowed a person to perform a single task and guarantee them
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wages as a source of income. However, as wonderful as this might seem, this
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new system led to the emergence of a n working class (proletariat) and
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forced them to depend on market conditions in order to survive as
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producers. Although seemingly content at first, those who became employed
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by these factories were immediately subjected to deplorable conditions.
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Arnold Toynbee made a scholarly assessment of this new wave of
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socio-economic behavior and concluded that the working class is suffering
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due to a series of hardships that make their lives miserable. He cited low
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wages, long hours, unsafe conditions, no provisions for old age, a
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discipline determined by machine and whole families being left with a low
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income rate as being a recurring problem that exploited the integrity and
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efficiency of Industrialization. This subsequently led to a period of
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"depersonalization" which meant that the employer-employee relationship was
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deteriorating in exchange for this new system. No longer could a worker
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befriend his boss or maintain a stable friendship since the divisions
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between their market classes made this al most impossible. One relied on
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the other for subsistence and therefore this dependency gave the property
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owners an upper edge in terms of negotiating income and support. Since the
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proletariat owned nothing but his labour, his abuse was imminent at the
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hands of some ruthless bourgeoisie. Clearly, this revolution was not aiding
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all the citizenry of Western culture.
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Since European man had found a way to increase the amount of products
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being manufactured, he also found a way to speed up the process through
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specialization and Urbanization. The growth of giant factories in
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Manchester, England skyrocketed from 77,000 in 1801 to 303,000 in 1850.
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People began leaving their countryside rural areas in exchange for an Urban
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life lead by the clock. The farm worker became the factory worker literally
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overnight in order to compete with these new market forces that had swept
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across Western Europe. T.S. Ashton, a prolific historian, saw this
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transition as being a positive force during the inauguration of the
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Industrial juggernaut. He believed that with Industrialization and
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Urbanization there existed a greater stability of consumption since a
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regularity in employment meant that goods were always being produced and
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transactions were ensuring that a greater proportion of the population was
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benefitting. He lauded the existence of a large class of workers since
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guaranteed lower prices because more people were well above the level of
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poverty. Be this as it may, Karl Marx had a radically different opinion on
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the effects of Industrialization. He was disgusted by the fact that the new
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working class was always at the mercy of their own employers and depended
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too much on the market. This dependency, he preached, would lead to an
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uprising involving the collective powers of the proletariat. This prophetic
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warning would lead to many other revolutions, most notably the Bolshevik
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revolution in Russia, and opened a new age of human suffering and
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decadence.
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In conclusion, the Industrial Revolution presented mankind with a
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miracle that changed the fabric of human behavior and social interaction.
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Eventually, it even influenced political ideologies and spread across the
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four corners of the Earth. However, in its silent and seemingly innocent
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way, the majority of the population in Western Europe were struck by a
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disease that was invisible to those in power and too obvious to those in
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the lower classes. The exodus from nature and the simple country life into
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a cornucopia of bustling cities filled with polluted factories is evidence
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of the influence of Industrialization. An influence so profound that the
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benefits were buried behind an avalanche of pain, poverty and abuse.
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