More than an Economic and Technological Revolution

The Industrial Revolution made big and significant changes in man’s life. Particularly, this period of the history, represents the beginning of a new and strong era, which still have a big impact in our daily life. “Production, machines and materialistic progress", are the main issue of this period. Throughout this period, social classes were created and there were more poor people than rich people. In fact, this brought inequality and poverty. Because of the enormous impact that this fact provoked in society, unfortunately, many people or “minorities” belonged to the periphery had to move on to the city to survive, because city was the maximum representation of modernity, hope progress and a possibility to arise economically. This fact provoked that many people such as miners, women and children were exploited and manipulated to work in hard conditions. As a consequence of this, they lived in extreme poverty and abandon conditions.

Nevertheless, thanks to members of parliament and organized workers, there were big social transformations during this period, which provoked education, labour and slavery reforms. Regarding to this, I wonder: What types of benefits provoked this milestone? I strongly believe that The Industrial Revolution, as well as it brought a new conception of progress; also it immensely provoked a human impoverishment. Since this period, man’s life is focused on production, doing of man, a kind of “human-machine” focused in the obtaining of material richness. In this sense, man passed to be, a human being into a machine of production, where spiritual impoverishment is much more astonishing as the all gold of the world.