Explain the social and demographic impact of industrialization.

The Industrial revolution has been commonly interpreted as the largest change in Human lifestyle since the transition to agriculture 12,000 to 6,000 years ago. It refers to the gradual but tangible process of shift from manufacturing mostly by hand or animal operated tools and machinery to manufacturing using machinery that runs on fossil fuels. The began in the late eighteenth century and its effects were still not completely felt in some places in the world, as recently as the mid-twentieth century. It not only impacted the material conditions but also social structures and demography.