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Industrial revolution was pretty much disaster for average workers. It took a lot of literal fights till things got better.
by watwut 5mo ago
Industrial revolution was pretty much disaster for average workers. It took a lot of literal fights till things got better.
- kranke155 5mo agoDecades. It took decades. My understanding is a lot of historians see the first decades as major economic growth while most British people actually became smaller and shorter due to malnutrition.
- Macha 5mo agoYeah it’s easy for people now to say “Look how great the Industrial Revolution was for us, the descendants of the people who didn’t die of cholera in an overcrowded tenement” and assume the Luddites were wrong on the impact on them, but that’s an over simplification