Industrial Revolution in England

Urbanization = rapid growth of cities

Enclosure movement kept people from working on farms to survive.

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What was happening in the cities that made people want to move from the country to the city?

Factory jobs drew people into the cities

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From the country to

the city

Crowded living conditions

In a room not thirteen feet either way slept twelve men and women, two or three in bunks set in a sort of alcove, the rest on the floor. . . .Most of the men were lodgers, who slept for five cents a spot."

Source: Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890).

Not enough space for all the people

How did people’s lives change because of

urbanization during the Industrial Revolution?