Life Before Industrial Revolution

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As a married woman that lived before the industrial revolution I can say that things have really changed here in Britain as well as the rest of the world. While the agricultural revolution that took place before may have helped food production and people obtain food at a lower price (Sec. 20-1a, Spielvogel), and the invention of machines like the steam engine may be making production of goods easier. It seems that the quality of life has done nothing but fall apart. Even though I live in the suburbs of the city, I can see all of the hard ships that the poorer people have to endure. The lowest class lives closest to the factories in rooms that are way too small, and covered in soot from the coal burning at the very factories that they work in.