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How did the effects of the Industrial Revolution influence the ordinary lives of working people between 1750 and 1850?
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How did the effects of the Industrial Revolution influence the ordinary lives of working people between 1750 and 1850? The typical view of social life within Industrial England between 1750 and 1850 is greatly demonstrated within Dickens's famous novel 'Hard Times' written to portray the urban struggles and changes taking place within society at that time (J. Stevenson, 1984). Infact most literature of the time agreed with the 'Condition of England' (1840's) statement that England had indeed witnessed great changes within the past 100 years or so. One thing is certain however and that is that a social revolution had not exactly taken place, rather more of a gradual transformation and turn from past ideals and social environments. Most historians now accept that the eighteenth century witnessed only the beginnings of processes, which were to take much of the next century to spread to the economy and society at large...
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