The 
 industrial 
 revolution is                     It begins 
 the period                          in 
  of time                          England 
  during 
 which work                          and 
 began to be                        then it 
 done more                         spreads 
   by                               in all 
 machines in                        Europe
  factories 
  than by 
  hand at 
   home
                           The reasons of the 
                                 revolution:
   •  England was rich of                     • Agricultural revolution. 
      fossil carbon and iron                    After the feudalism, the 
      used to feed the                          owners became 
      machines                                  entreprenours
   • England lives of wealth                    • There is the passage 
     and prosperity thanks to                     from the absolutism to 
     the colonies that produced                   constitutional 
     the english products                         government 
          Consequences
  The farmers moved 
 to towns and they 
 lived in back-to-
 back houses where 
 there was no 
 sanitation and 
 running water. 
 These conditions 
 took the spreads of 
 deseases such as 
 cholera
      Exploitation of children and women
  The children were useful       • Women were underpaid 
  because they could be            compered to men and in case 
  paid the least and they          of death they were replaced 
  were small enough to fix         by others to fill the needs of 
  machines.                        the productive machines 
                       • They worked from 
                          12 hours to 16 
                           hours a day
  The alienation was caused by the division of 
 labour because during the industrial revolution, 
 in the factories, the machines did all the hard 
 work while men did only mechanical and 
 simple activities. Due to this condition the 
 farmers were alienated because they were 
 specialized always on the same task.
                 Because of this,
                  in this period 
                 there is the
                  phenomenon of 
                 «Ludism» where
                  the workers 
                 distroyed all the machines as a 
                 sign of protest against the 
                 exploitation.