ges, long hours, unsafe conditions, no provisions for old age, adiscipline determined by machine and whole families being left with a lowincome rate as being a recurring problem that exploited the integrity andefficiency of Industrialization. This subsequently led to a period of"depersonalization" which meant that the employer-employee relationship wasdeteriorating in exchange for this new system. No longer could a workerbefriend his boss or maintain a stable friendship since the divisionsbetween their market classes made this al most impossible. One relied onthe other for subsistence and therefore this dependency gave the propertyowners an upper edge in terms of negotiating income and support. Since theproletariat owned nothing but his labour, his abuse was imminent at thehands of some ruthless bourgeoisie. Clearly, this revolution was not aidingall the citizenry of Western culture. Since European man had found a way to increase the amount of productsbeing manufactured, he also found a way to speed up the process throughspecialization and Urbanization. The growth of giant factories inManchester, England skyrocketed from 77,000 in 1801 to 303,000 in 1850.People began leaving their countryside rural areas in exchange for an Urbanlife lead by the clock. The farm worker became the factory worker literallyovernight in order to compete with these new market forces that had sweptacross Western Europe. T.S. Ashton, a prolific historian, saw thistransition as being a positive force during the inauguration of theIndustrial juggernaut. He believed that with Industrialization andUrbanization there existed a greater stability of consumption since aregularity in employment meant that goods were always being produced andtransactions were ensuring that a greater proportion of the population wasbenefitting. He lauded the existence of a large class of workers sinceguaranteed lower prices because more people were well above the level ofpoverty. Be th...
