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Industrialization Vs Industrialization

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Industrialization had better effects on men and women of the upper and middle classes, than with the men and women of the working classes. Industrialization began in Europe, at the time there was a large rise in population. The population of London grew from 750,000 to 9 million in just two years (11/9). Due to the large growth in population, people were forced to develop new ideas such as new productions of energy and multiple story buildings. The number of factories grew exponentially and as a result, "the massive extraction of nonrenewable raw materials to feed and to fuel industrial machinery...altered the landscape in many places" (Strayer, 568). The production of factories and work created migration to urban areas, during this time middle class people began "needing" servants. People of the upper-class would have anywhere from three to four clothing changes per day, and it was typical for their staff to consist of forty to one hundred people. Considering the size of the staff, upper class housing had to be large enough for the staff and family to live in, and not see each other (11/9). This was a very different way of living from those in the working class. Living conditions were better for those in the upper and middle classes than those in the working class, and some ideas presented in the age of Enlightenment carried over into the Industrial Revolution.
During the time of the Industrialization, the central value of the middle-class culture was

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