The benefits of new technologies from industrialization were not worth the costs. The new and exciting innovations from the industrial revolution caused pollution, little kids to have no future for their lives and caused many casualties for factory workers. In a picture published by Detroit Publishing Co, the factory smokestacks are giving off excessive amounts of air pollution. Many people were unaware of the pollution coming from factories and this picture showed them how the factories were damaging the environment. Many people were also getting very ill from the pollution. On the same note, because there were so many new factories being built they needed workers to run them. About 526 people were killed in an accident in a Pittsburgh factory and 509 injured in multiple accidents. The many lives that were lost in this accident were not worth it. These workers worked every day to earn a living and just because their job had bad conditions the shouldn't have had to die. Furthermore, factories also had child labor which stopped innocent kids from growing and getting an education. In a poster from 1913 made by Lewis Wickes Hine, little kids start work as healthy and strong kids with bright futures but with no education, they continue to work and end up as kids with low wages and no future. Instead of going to school to learn and grow they have to go to work in bad conditions. Industrialization was not worth taking these kids futures away from them. As you can see the benefits of new and innovative technologies were not worth the cost.
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