The benefits of industrialization were not worth the overall cost of damage to America. One of the damages to society was horrible pollution from factories. According to the article, “Polluting the Environment,” “ By the early 1900s, air pollution became so heavy in industrial cities that people needed streetlights to see during the day.” This badly affected the people living near factories because they could get injured or possibly die because of the polluted air.
Pollution was a huge issue that was also shown in a Detroit Publishing Company photograph of smokestacks. Smokestacks are basically funnels that come out of factories and ships to let out smoke, which leads to pollution. In the primary source photo, it is showing smokestacks in factories and the air being affected. Therefore, pollution has terrible effects on the environment and society.
Along with pollution, another big issue was child labor. This was where children were treated as low pay slaves. The poster “Making Human Junk,” created by Lewis Wickes Hines, shows the process of child labor. The poster says that by the end of the process, the children have no future and low wages. It says that they have no future, because of two reasons in my opinion. Reason one is that if they are not payed a good amount, then they cannot pay for certain things that will help the become successful. The other reason that the children in child labor would have no future, is that they are not used to another job, and so since child labor is bad, if they had another job, they would not know what a “good job” is. Pollution and child labor are just two of the negative aspects of industrialization. For all of these reasons, the benefits of industrialization were not worth the cost.
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