Industrialization's effects on European society, class, gender, and economy

Pre-Industrial & Industrial Europe

When it comes to social structure, the Industrial Europe experienced the victory of a middle class of industrialists as well as entrepreneurs above a landed class of nobility and gentry and common working persons discovered improved prospects for jobs in the new mills and factories, however these were frequently observed stern working circumstances through extensive work hours subject by a rate established by the machines but the severe working conditions were widespread earlier than when the Industrial Revolution happened because the pre-industrial society was already too stagnant as well as frequently harsh, for example the child workers, the grubby home set-up and the tedious work hours were at the same time as widespread prior to the Industrial Revolution.

At the time of the pre-industrial Europe, the class structure of society altered radically because before the industrialization, many of the people dwells in little communities or towns, working in an agriculture setting or working as an experienced craftsmen; people then lived as well as habitually performed as a family, accomplishing all their work with the use of their hands alone. Moreover, in books we can see that majority Britain's population resided in the countryside with farming as the prime occupation. As the industrialization arises, on the other hand, a lot have changed. For example, there were the new rules on enclosure that obliged that every grazing land must be fenced in at the owner's expense made many meager farmers unemployed and was left with no money and as the machines were able to produce massive production, it caused the hand weavers unneeded. Consequently, lots of the workers were mandated to be employed in the factories and work with the machines. This needed these people to go to the cities and leave their village hence they can be near to their new workpalce which indicated to making less money and work more hours than they had before. In addition to this, the living expenses became higher because of the urbanization as well as having to deal with the difficulty of stretching the family's resources and budget every need they have.

Given that the workers, even the women and children, were working long extended hours everyday, resulted to limited family communication with the merely instance that they are all at home was when they went home to rest and sleep after working very hard. There were also instances when several families would need to share lodging with other families that promoted the division of the family as one unit. Consequently, the children were given minimal amount of education, child labor also resulted to make the children experience underdeveloped in height as well as weak and always ill. Children have grown to become rather emotionally unstable, for they were never learned how to behave the right manner. The living conditions were really awful; as mentioned earlier, the working families would often reside in slums with little or no sanitation. On the other hand, there were also positive transformation in Europe during the industrialization -- many classes ultimately gained in certain means from the big earnings that were being made, and as time passesby, many of the workers were already earning bigger salary for the prevalent distress of lack of income as well as the continuous peril of hunger was fewer and the total health and living conditions of the people finally improved. And the administration finally dealth with the child labor by putting an end to it.