Consequences of the Industrial Revolution

In Our Time

BBC

History

4.6 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2010

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the far-reaching consequences of the Industrial Revolution. After more than a century of rapid technological change, and the massive growth of its urban centres, Britain was changed forever. Lifestyles changed as workers moved from agricultural settlements to factory towns: health, housing and labour relations were all affected. But the effects were both social and intellectual, as thinkers originated theories to deal with the new realities of urban living, mass production and a consumer society. With:Jane HumphriesProfessor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, University of OxfordEmma GriffinSenior Lecturer in History at the University of East AngliaLawrence GoldmanFellow and Tutor in History at St Peter's College, University of OxfordProducer: Thomas Morris.

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0:46.5	the program. Hello in 1842 a German businessman sent his 22-year-old son abroad to work in the Manchester office of the
0:54.2	family textile firm. This young man, Frederick Engels, spent much of the
0:58.4	next two years exploring the slums and factories of the city. Horrified by the poverty, disease and overcrowding
1:04.8	herewithness, Engels documented his experiences in a book entitled The Condition of the
1:09.4	Working Class in England in 1844. Engels recognised that the introduction of steam power and new manufacturing technologies
1:17.0	had changed Britain forever.
1:19.0	These inventions, he wrote, gave rise to an industrial revolution, a revolution which altered the whole civil society,
1:26.0	one the historical importance of which is only now beginning to be recognized.
1:30.0	The consequences of the industrial Revolution were certainly profound.
1:34.0	The economy, social structures, housing, education and public health were all affected.
1:38.0	Many of these effects are at a human cost, but in other ways society was changed for the better.
1:43.5	With me to discuss the legacy of the Industrial Revolution are Jane Humphreys, Professor of Economic
1:48.2	History and Fellow of All Souls College Oxford, Emma Griffin, Senior Lecture in History at the University of East Anglia, and
1:54.8	Lawrence Goldman, Fellow and Tutoring History at St Peter's College, Oxford.
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