Question

Do you think the industrial revolution helped or hurt workers? Why?

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

## This is a more, "whats your opinion question" so answers may vary from person to person

The industrial revolution created many jobs, boosted the economy, but created many issues too. Including but not limited too, child labor, decrease in workplace saftey for the sake of profits, hard hours, and many injuries and deaths (i.e. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire). In the short term, companies used the oppertunity of little workers rights to exploit them for profits, yet in the long term boomed the economy and our exports and America's indepence from buying imports.