The Industrial Revolution in England - Personal Statement Example

The Industrial Revolution in England My is Margaret Bellwether. This is my story. The Industrial Revolution, whether for better or worse, has changed dramatically my life. To begin, I shall iterate the woes and worries it bought and this, if anything, will make you appreciate perhaps the benefits and wonders it bought (if any).Enclosure has plagued my family and myself. Force, resistance, and bloodshed has characterised this inhumane process of appropriating public land for private benefit. As a young child, my father had his land taken from him so that the landlord can make more money raising sheep.

My father had therefore been reduced in effect to slavery. But this is the story of the working class. Enclosure meant that the poor, rather than the rich, constituted landless labourers. The working class had therefore lost their independence, their soul and dignity to work. But my quality of life despite this may have improved in general. The Industrial Revolution changed Manchester from a rural, and agricultural society, to an urban and industrial society. The Industrial Revolution has bought significant benefits.

The spinning jenny has reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, the Industrial Revolution has also bought to us the steam engine, and the power driven machinery in the textile industry, in our mills, for steam-powered looms for weaving. Importantly, families are now able to generate a greater income, as the wife is now able to stay at home and work the fields whilst the husband can work freely in the factory.But a Manchester once made up of peasant farmers, enjoying rural England, became unfortunately a Manchester soaked in sap and tar that so vehemently attacked our lungs.

Despite technological advances, Manchester factories turned into breeding grounds for slave-driven worker standards. Revenue took over from efficiency; employer standards took priority over employee standards. But improvements in travel conditions, such as stronger bridges and roads, and the other inventions that we can now exploit, such as the steam engine for longer travelling, and the ability to farm and harvest much more than we could before, offset to an extent the disadvantages of the Industrial Revolution.

One, however, must not look too far ahead if one is to conclude that things closer to home have to first be remedied.