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Industrial Revolution in England. Urbanization = rapid growth of cities. Enclosure movement kept people from working on farms to survive. KEEP OUT!. What was happening in the cities that made people want to move from the country to the city?. Factory jobs drew people into the cities.
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Industrial Revolution in England Urbanization = rapid growth of cities
Enclosure movement kept people from working on farms to survive. KEEP OUT!
What was happening in the cities that made people want to move from the country to the city?
Factory jobs drew people into the cities Now Hiring!!
From the country to the city
In a room not thirteen feet either way slept twelve men and women, two or three in bunks set in a sort of alcove, the rest on the floor. . . .Most of the men were lodgers, who slept for five cents a spot." Source: Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890).
How did people’s lives change because of urbanization during the Industrial Revolution?