Analyze the impacts of industrialization on societies.

This is an extremely broad question, one which is really impossible to answer in any degree of detail in a limited space. The effects of industrialization on societies have been profound, indeed the Industrial Revolution, it can be argued, is among the most important developments in human history. Here are just a few of the changes brought about by the development of industry:

• The emergence of a large working class that did not own the...

This is an extremely broad question, one which is really impossible to answer in any degree of detail in a limited space. The effects of industrialization on societies have been profound, indeed the Industrial Revolution, it can be argued, is among the most important developments in human history. Here are just a few of the changes brought about by the development of industry:

• The emergence of a large working class that did not own the means of production in their industry. So, for example, rather than small skilled weavers who owned their own looms, industrialists employed less-skilled workers who worked in mills on machine looms.


• The rise of new cities (and growth of old ones) as people moved to urban areas in search of industrial jobs. In Great Britain, cities like Manchester arose from almost nothing to become massive cities full of working class people and the factories where they toiled.


• The consolidation of industry into large corporations and trusts. This was a result of the fact that the new technologies that drove the Industrial Revolution were capital-intensive, that is, they required a great deal of money to support. So large businesses were at an advantage, and monopolies resulted.


• The growth of a new class of wealthy industrialists and financiers. These leaders of major industries exercised almost unprecedented control over business and industry.


• Working conditions for many workers declined. In the absence of government regulation, hours were very long, conditions very dangerous, and child labor was rampant. Many in the new working class mentioned above lived on subsistence wages. 

These are just a few of the changes that emerged as a result of the Industrial Revolution.