2. Contents of This Template
1- Social impacts .
2- Political impacts .
3- Economic impacts .
4- Cultural impacts .
3. Great Britain was the first country in the world that
witnessed the IR which led to the appearance of dramatical
changes that had an impact on British people’s life in
different levels social , economic , political and cultural
growth .
4. Social Impacts :
A number of remarkable social changes occurred within the Industrial
Revolution after the 18th century.
- Standard of living :The gradual increase in education
and literacy hit life expectancy rates .
- Urbanization : the population started to grow rapidly
due to the improvement of living conditions , It
brought a rapid movement wave of people into cities
- It established a new middle class within the working-
class : The middle and upper classes prospered
immediately / The working class prospered over time
5. The IR marked a change for women .
- Many women entered the work for the first time .
- Female factory workers often made only one-third as much as men .
- As women became more involved in politics , some began to demand
suffrage , the right to vote . (1918)
Changes for Women
6. - Countries began to intervene in the economy setting better
working standards .
- The emergence of britain as a leading political power .
- Better ties with other countries .
- Socialism : the government owns the means of production (steel ,
oil , major factories …) and operate them for the benefit of all
people , rich or poor .
Political Impacts
7. - Redistribution of wealth .
- Massive social programs .
- Government regulation of economy .
Socialism central ideas :
8. Economic Impacts :
- large scale production .
- argiculture and sheep farming .
- Devision of labour .
- capitalism : the establishement of industries require large sums of
money or capital . Therefore few entrepreneurs or capitalists
controlled the means of production and dominated the society .
9. -Development of banking system : the progress in
industry , and commerce led to the growth on joint
stock and trading companies which carried on their
business with the help of the banks .
-- rolled in wealth : some of the countries rolled in
wealth and there was improvement in the standard of
living of the people .
10. - The industrial revolution changed their living conditions ,
communication , transportation , and innovations that were made ,
because of a new technology .
- Improvement of Communication and transportation.
-The standard of living in that period increased .
-- The industrial revolution changed the way people lived .
- People started to create a new culture and left the old in the dust .
- Work life also changed during the industrial revolution .
Cultural Impacts :
11. All those factors created good conditions which
motivated British people to obtain wealth and
composed a great society and an advanced one in
many domains such as technological advance .
