the_first_industrial_revolution(18)

EffectsThe Industrial Revolution created a specialized and interdependent economic life and made the urban worker more completely dependent on the will of the employer than the rural worker had been. Relations between capital and labor were aggravated, and Marxism was one product of this unrest. The revolution also brought a need for a new type of state intervention to protect the laborer and to provide necessary services. The Industrial Revolution also provided the economic base for the rise of the professions, population expansion, and improvement in living standards and remains a primary goal of less developed nations.