It could've been good or bad...

I do not believe that industrialization was worth the cost, for three reasons. It gave off a lot of pollution, turned kids futures into junk, and the factories had many accidents that I don't believe were worth it. In 1890-1901 a picture was taken by the Detroit Publishing Company. This photograph shows that the factories let off a lot of pollution, by showing all of the smoke. I think pollution was not worth the cost of industrialization. According to the article “Polluting The Environment,” it said that air pollution became so bad in cities with factories that people needed streetlights to see during the day. Pollution caused many problems in this time period, and America is still trying to take away the amount of pollution in the air. Kids who worked in factories weren't payed much and were treated horribly. A poster created in 1913, called Making Human Junk, asked the question if the industry should be allowed to put the cost of working in factories on children and society. This poster by Lewis Wickes shows how kids who work in factories lose their future. It shows kids working in factories, and said that the children are good material at first when they start the job, but after they work their pay gets lowered and their future gets lost. The poster called the workers junk or trash because all they did was work in factories. Factory accidents were common during industrialization and caused many workers to die. In 1906-1907 there had been accidents in work factories that caused a lot of damage. 526 men were killed over the span of the year. I believe that these accidents were not worth the cost. In the report by Crystal Eastman, she said in the span of three months the hospitals received 509 men that had been injured from industrial accidents. Overall I think Industrial accidents were not worth the cost.