Where did the industrial revolution takes place?
In 1775, in Britain there was a big change in the way people worked and goods were produced which is known as industrial revolution. It spread to Belgium, Germany, Italy, France and after 1850 to Japan and the USA. Machines in huge factory replaced the craft workers who used to make all kinds of goods slowly, one by one, at home. People had to learn new jobs, operating machines that could produce very large quantities of clothes, shoes, paper, metal and wooden goods more quickly and cheaply than the hand workers could produce. This revolution made some factory owners and inventors very rich, but angered many ordinary workers who of
ten earned barely enough to stay alive. This led to the formation of trade unions to campaign for better pay and conditions.
Hoping to find regular work with more pay, thousands of unemployed men and women moved from the countryside to the towns. Threshing Machine Wages in the factories were better than those in farms but working conditions in factories were dirty and dangerous. The living conditions in the factory towns were also very unhealthy.
