This industrial revolution was not worth the cost. Many people got sick, hurt, and the factories polluted the environment. From the photograph Factory Smoke Stacks by Detroit Publishing Company, these new innovations needed factories to produce them. When more and more factories were built, a lot more pollution was spewed out of the stacks. This made for many sicknesses’ such as typhoid fever and many other diseases, according to the article “Polluting The Environment”. When so much pollution got into the atmosphere streetlights where needed during the daytime. I would feel really dirty all of the time with clouds of soot hovering over me. This industrial revolution also impacted young children, from the poster “Making Human Junk” by Hine, Lewis Wickes, many children were put to work in dangerous conditions. According to this poster factory work also ruined their futures because they were treated like items not like the young children they really are. Many men and women workers also got hurt or even died. “...over 526 men were killed by work accidents” (Taken from “Accident Reports” in Pittsburgh, 1907. Written by Eastman, Crystal). In all the industrial revolution was not worth the cost, many people got hurt, died, and pollution filled the sky. So, do you think it’s worth it?
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