The Industrial Revolution

DRAMATIC CHANGES IN TOWN AND IN THE COUNTRY

First of all the Industrial Revolution made profound economic and social changes.

Thousand of people moved to the new industrial towns where the urban slums became synonymous with the Industrial Revolution.

However  in 1834 the new Poor law was far from a solution to the problems because the poor remained amassed in workhouse that resembled jails.

THE DEBATE ON THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

The industrial civilization produced both greatest prosperity and greatest poverty.

On the one hand the majority of the ruling class  argued economic and social doctrine of "Laissez-faire" illustrated by Adam Smith, on the other hand liberal thinkers and representatives of the new social philosophy opposed to that theory.

On the one hand the liberal thinkers disapproved the lack of human sympathy shown by the utilitarian doctrine.
On the other hand born socialist theories of Marx and Engels from the conditions of working class and the damages done to the enviroment.

WRITERS ON THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION