The Industrial Revolution happen in Western Europe in the 1700s and was a huge deal Technologically. It affected the world a lot in the long road with technology, but also had major consequences at the time to do all what they did. Although this event has been titled a revolution, the question is whether the Industrial revolution was truly a revolution. For the purposes of this paper, the term revolution will be defined as a sudden, radical change for the positive. Although the Industrial Revolutionary was very revolutionary technologically because of the steam engine and all the other inventions. Socially it was only fairly revolutionary because of the end of slavery and some women's labor rights. Then Economically it was sort of revolutionary because of labor union, but also child labor becoming an issue.
The Industrial Revolution was very revolutionary technologically. It certainly resulted in a significant amount of change and for this mostly all positive if not all. First,”The process of crop rotation proved to be one of the best developments by the scientific farmers...for example, a farmer might plant a field of wheat, which exhausted soil nutrients. The next year he planted a root crop, to restore nutrients.” (Beck et. al.,54). This talks about one of the many inventions and breakthroughs made in the Industrial Revolution, Which was crop …show more content…
Then second, socially with the end of slavery in the British West indies and Women labor rights. The lastly, economically it was sort of revolutionary because of labor union, but also child labor becoming an issue. Given this evidence in assessing if the Industrial Revolution was actually a revolution. I would say it was because it was certainly sudden radical and mostly positive change. So for this purpose the name of revolution for the Industrial Revolution should