The Industrial Revolution created numerous hardships as it swept across the the world
during the early nineteenth century. The rapid industrialization of cities and towns caused
many families to have small wages, work long hours, have unsafe working conditions, and
families that had children, often resulted in being involved in child labor. With bad labor
laws, the pollution from the factories effected much of Europe so much that it created
Slums throughout industrial cities. With the problems becoming more severe, some
socialists often urged parliamentary reform because they wanted the work force to have a
voice while others proposed having model communities for workers and their families to
have a sense of mentoring to look up to.
The Rapid industrialization caused a massive change for the typical family at this time
period. Starting off as casual, laid back English villages and towns that changed to big
industrialized cities. “The population is crowded into one dense mass, in cottages
separated by narrow, unpaved, and almost pestilential streets; in an atmosphere loaded
with the smoke and exhalations of a large manufacturing city.” Each industrialized city at
the time had cottages lined up to narrow and unpaved streets throughout the whole city.
Often it was so populated, sewage would be outside in the streets because of how little
space people would have. “The operatives are congregated in rooms and workshops during
twelve hours in the day, in an enervating, heated atmosphere, which is frequently loaded
with dust or filaments of cotton, or
impure from constant respiration, or from other causes.” One example as to how bad the
