The Cost of Rapid Industrialization

The rapid industrialization of the European nations during the 18th and 19th century caused poverty to many workers. It caused so much poverty that some people have been led to ask if such momentum was necessary. Although the destitution was unfortunate, it was a necessary side effect of something that would forever benefit the people of the modern world. The industrial revolution brought a lot of good towards the quality of life of the people. …

…be mostly growing rice paddies now. Rapid industrialization is a much easier way to get through the industrialization period. Critics of it are may be right in their sympathy for people of the industrialization age, but they are not looking at the bigger picture. If we were waiting around to try and get through it slowly, and without poverty, Canada might still be a developing nation, and Britain might still be controlled by the monarchy.