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Positive Effects Of the Industrial Revolution. What Positive Things Did the Industrial Revolution Do?. Workers finally got what they disserved; higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions. It created jobs for workers. It helped hope for improvements in people’s lives .
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Positive Effects Of the Industrial Revolution
What Positive Things Did the Industrial Revolution Do? Workers finally got what they disserved; higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions. • It created jobs for workers. • It helped hope for improvements in people’s lives
Greatly increased the production of goods and the standard of living It advanced technological progress and invention. • People created healthier diets, better housing, and cheaper mass produced clothing.
Because of the high demands of goods employers were in need of engineers to produce more goods therefore created more job openings and higher educational opportunities
Long Term Effects • Today we are able to afford consumer goods that would have been extravagant to people 50 or 60 years ago. • Since the 19th century the working conditions have improved because of laws that have been set.
Profits developed from industrialization produced tax revenue allowing local, state and federal governments to invest in improvements and raising the standard of living for most people in urban areas
The success and problems created by the Industrial Revolution had affected industrial cities in the 1800s and even today.