Industrial Revolution in England
Urbanization = rapid growth of cities
Enclosure movement kept people from working on farms to survive.
KEEP OUT!
What was happening in the cities that made people want to move from the country to the city?
Factory jobs drew people into the cities
Now Hiring!!
From the country to
the city
Crowded living conditions
In a room not thirteen feet either way slept twelve men and women, two or three in bunks set in a sort of alcove, the rest on the floor. . . .Most of the men were lodgers, who slept for five cents a spot."
Source: Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890).
Not enough space for all the people
How did people’s lives change because of
urbanization during the Industrial Revolution?
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