Social Change in the First Industrial Revolution

The First Industrial Revolution not only brought about revolutionary changes in the economic structure, but also significantly changed the political structure.The royal and aristocratic rule collapsed, and the emerging bourgeoisie achieved an election law revision.This bourgeois activity led to the Chartist movement in England, where adult men of the working class gathered together and demanded the right to vote.

The Industrial Revolution saw industrialization leading almost all of the rural population to go to cities, resulting in an explosive increase in urban population.In the end, however, during the Industrial Revolution, the air in the city was deteriorated by the smoke of burning coal, and it turned into an unsanitary, foul-smelling, and crowded city.

One of the social problems that occurred during the First Industrial Revolution was the health of workers.The lifespan of workers was much shorter than that of the aristocratic class, which is attributed to an unsanitary epidemic.The miserable lives of these workers led to a wave of socialist movements against capitalism, and were made logical by Marx's establishment of "scientific socialism" against fantasy socialism.