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	The Industrial Revolution was the result of many changes  which .
            
 made agricultural economies into industrial ones. Productivity and technical .
            
efficiency increased rapidly. The Industrial Revolution led to the growth of cities which .
            
allowed peole to move from rural basic communities to more modern urban communities .
            
where peolpe could start a more modern based city living.
            
	The changes brought by the Industrial Revolution changed traditional .
            
economies aswell as societies too. Economic changes caused social changes, which .
            
allowed people from lower standard communties to move into a more urban based .
            
community, which gave a better disbursment of commercial goods . It also allowed people .
            
a new way of doing buisness. The Industrial Revolution was the first  step economic .
            
growth and development.
            
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	The Industrial Revolution changed the lives of women and children. Women were .
            
 usuall in the house all day now  they could work in factories. Children were valuable in .
            
jobs that  adults were not able to do. Children were sold to factories and abused by their .
            
bosses for being slow or lazy. Workers were sometimes hurt or disfigured from a part of thier body on the job. Coal miners ruined their lungs from dust of mines. Factory workers .
            
lost fingers or limbs by a factory machine.
            
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	The social class were people that benefited most from the Industrial Revolution .
            
those who invested factories, inventors, or skilled artisans used talents that made .
            
marketable goods. Social class enjoyed greater prosperity and usually better health. The .
            
social class which usually lived in nice homes with good clothes and had lots food to eat, had .
            
it easier than most peolpe.
            
	The ladies in the social class were encouraged ladylike activities such as embroidery, .
            
playing  the piano, or drawing. True  social ladies did not  work outside from the house and .
            
did not do physical work around the house.