Modern World History: Responses to the Industrial Revolution

This section of the text looks at how workers, owners, and the government responded differently to the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution. The Luddites rebelled against industrialization. Robert Owen, a wealthy socialist, established a Utopian factory town in New Lanark. The government enacted the Factory Acts in response to child labor. Health care improved. Marxist ideas spread. The page ends with a discussion of the three phases of industrialization up to the present day, and a timeline of the history of computers.