Working Class Essays - Industrial Revolution, Textile Machinery

Working Class Essays - Industrial Revolution, Textile Machinery Working Class First of all, the working class evolved in England. This happened mostly because England was the first to use machines for mass production. For instance, with new inventions like the Spinning Jenny machines in England, it caused a revolution to take place in England first. These machines reduced the values of the old tools, the property of the individual craftsmen and replaced the accomplishments and intellectual powers of the workers. As a result, workers hated the machines. The machines were far too expensive to be owned by the common worker, which meant that the workers would have no possession of their own property. Without possession of property, the workers lives ended up depending on the owners of the machines they used. Battles were fought between workers against the use of these machines, but the owners ended up winning since they had more general