What were some of the problems experienced by increased urbanization during early industrialization?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Problems of urbanization
1. ill-built cities, breeders of disease and disorder
a. Manchester in the 1830s-1840s and Barcelona in the 1850s-1860s
b. philanthropic inquiries that exposed foul living conditions
c. effects of breathing in the atmosphere of the textile mills: profuse
sweat, exhaustion, gastric trouble, difficult breathing, poor
circulation, mental weariness, nervous prostration, corrosion of the
lungs, poisoning from machine oils and dyes
2. growth of slums around city centers
3. difficulty in meeting the nutritional needs of people
a. took a long time for urbanization to deliver nutritional benefits
b. growing towns make fresh foods relatively expensive, hard to obtain
c. most families inadequately fed, many sick for want of food
d. workers saved money living almost entirely on oatmeal and water
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