The industrial revolution: is an advantage or a disadvantage nowadays?
During the
mid-18th century, the Industrial Revolution was occurred including a
lot of changes as hand production methods to machines or the development of
machine tools and the rise of the factory system, apart from changes in about
women and children life.
Furthermor, there was another change that I believe that affected our
life as we know it today. Firstly, for instance, social effects. Prior to the
Industrial Revolution, almost the entire population worked as land owners,
tenants or self-employed farmers… but, what happened later? After the Industrial
Revolution machines became a substitute of people. And what happens nowadays? I
think it is almost the same. There are machines which can clean the house, wash
the dishes, or even cook!!
From my point
of view, in some cases it is a good idea to invent and create new machineries
but it is truth that this fact makes worse the employment situation. It reminds
me what happen currently with the new technologies. Are the mobiles phone
preventing children from thinking more? Now there are two different kind of
people: on the one hand, those who think that mobiles are a magnificent and
useful invention and on the other hand those who do not agree with this opinion.
It seems like luddites. They think that they could not compete with machines because
they could produce more and in a quickly way. But there is an important
question, if people needed to work, why were they inventing new machines to
replace them?
How about the
women lifestyle? In the past, actually during the Industrial Revolution, women
status lowered. Middle and upper-class women always had to confined to an idle
domestic existence, while poor women were forced to take poorly paid jobs. I am
sure that currently it still happens. In my opinion, poor women or even men
must work to have a ‘’normal’’ lifestyle nowadays, because we are suffering a
big economic depression. Although in the past women were inflated, we cannot
think that it does not happen now. However, women at present can enjoy more
than in the past. Women had fought a lot until get some freedom. However, there
still being occurrence were women suffer.
Apart from
women and technologies, children had also suffered. They were sended to work
and working means hard labour, long hours, difficult and weighed machines… it
also hard to think about it. So many children died because of that conditions,
but some others grow up living through these tragic situationes. Now I can´t
imagine how children can work as young as six years old while there are people
who don´t work currently even being 30 years old. It´s a madness!!!
To sum up,
the Industrial Revolution affected quite a lot to our world, including machines
and some other points of view that currently affects nowadays society. After
all that situation and after many years, people got mature and now, I believe
that there is some things that it is imposible to do again, for instance, children
working at 4,5,6. But we have to recognize that now we have less problems than
in those moments, because everything had improved.
Written by Mariam Aleksanyan Tonoyan
Revised by Yeray Aguilar Domínguez
EPD 12/GROUP
In fact, how people perceive their present is very different from how we perceive the past; we never know to what extent what we are living is relevant in history until we check the impact of events in the future.. Almost certainly, in a few decades, our present will be part of what will be called, technological revolution, given that it has changed even our waking up habits!
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