Article 3: Living Condition During Industrial Revolution

As the factory system was established and changed the family workshop operation, there were more and more workers, and the factory was no longer contained within the confines of the family, so the factory owners moved away from the factory, and the workers lived in simple shacks around the factory. The poor living conditions of the urban lower classes existed long before the Industrial Revolution. In Paris, those who were slightly better off lived in cheaply renovated attics between floors that looked like cellars, while the poor lived even worse. 1782 "Families lived in one room ...... with a simple bed without a tent, cooking utensils spread out on the floor, next to the urinal, and whenever the rent was due, those who could not pay had to live with their money. Those who could not pay had to live in shame and humiliation on the streets." (Lewis Mumford, La cite' a 'travers L'histoire, 1964, p. 55) In terms of water pollution, industrial wastewater and domestic sewage constituted the two major sources of water pollution in British cities during the Industrial Revolution. Factories were the core force of the development of the emerging cities, and most of the residents' lives revolved around it, but at that time, the cities were very backward in terms of residential water supply, sewage treatment and sanitation and health care. Since a garbage cleaning system had not yet been established, garbage and feces were everywhere in the city streets, seriously damaging the health of the residents. There is no running water, no ventilation ducts, the smell of excrement wafts into the room day after day, and it is difficult for people to escape in case of fire and other emergencies.