Industrialization: Was it Worth the Effort, Time, and Cost?

No, I do not believe that the benefits of new technologies from industrialization were worth the cost. In the picture of Factory Smokestack, pollution is filling the air and producing factory “trash”. People living around or near these factories are threatened and do not benefit from this pollution, they are harmed. For instance, these people would not have to plead for street lights to be able to see during the day otherwise it would be dangerous. Soot and smoke filled the air from burning coal that people used to heat their houses and other buildings. Water became polluted and caused diseases. For instance typhoid fever was caused from the water.
Businesses affected societies and the people in them. In the photograph of Making Human Junk, children are shown going through a process starting as perfectly fine kids then turning into mad, angry, and sad children. Low wages were problems with the working because these kids worked for many hours a day, with little pay. There was no future included in this working either. Nothing good came out of this for the children and their families that were suffering already too much. Kids at the age of 20 or under shouldn’t even be working in a factory that could kill you with the harmful smoke and machines.
The excerpt written about working accidents explains how 526 workmen were killed while working in Allegheny County, a country in Pittsburgh, in one year. During the active years of the Industrial Revolution, these factories of dangerous activities were something to fight about and not to forget at the time. Many people died in an unfair way, unnecessary amount of working hours and little cash to pay off that sweat. The industrial revolution was not worth the cost even with the benefits of the new technology to contribute to the environment that people were living.