It increased their population sizes, since farming could feed more people than hunting and gathering (the method used before the Neolithic Era).
Women’s rights could be a reason and segregation
There were no child labors laws nor working unions the rights of employees were at the mercy of what was needed and unexistant.
The industrial revolution was a very contaminated and polluted dark snoky dirty ashy and sick period of history
Another hardship especially for coal miners was the same thing we have know implosion in short terms it is a combination of physical & emontional pollution that took over many lives
~ hope this helps
About 470,693 square miles (1.22 million km²)