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Industrial Revolution: Cities
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Living Conditions during the Industrial Revolution varied from the splendor of the homes of the owners to the squalor of the lives of the workers. In this section you will find descriptions and links that will help you to understand what living in an Industrialising city may have been like.
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It's interesting that both Capitalism and Communism were born out of the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution produced Capitalism by producing the classes of bourgeoisie and the proletariat, which defined it. However, the change was very swift. Peasants responded to the need for human capital in the cities, and soon flocked in great numbers. In the cities, they subsisted. Their wages were barely enough to sustain their basic needs. A few families were often found occupying a single room.
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Historian Lewis Mumford has proposed that the Industrial Revolution had its origins in the early Middle Ages, much earlier than most estimates. He explains that the model for standardised mass production was the printing press and that "the archetypal model for the industrial era was the clock". He ... cites the monastic emphasis on order and time-keeping, as well as the fact that mediaeval cities had at their centre a church with bell ringing at regular intervals as being necessary precursors to a greater synchronisation necessary for later, more physical, manifestations such as the steam engine.
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