Complete the text with these words.
benefits conditions exhausted factories fired jobs wages workforce
Changing times
The Industrial Revolution began in England in about 1750. It was the result of
the change from manual production to machine methods. It is called a revolution
because it greatly changed the way people lived and worked. They left the
countryside and moved to towns and cities. (1)
replaced
farming as the main source of (2)
Instead of growing their
own food and making everything they needed at home, people began earning
and buying their food and other basic items.
he Industrial Revolution led to a number of problems for the new 'working
class'. The (4)
which included children, worked in miserable
for little money. Many work places were extremely
angerous, employees were often (6)
_, because they had
work long hours and they could be (7)
- at any moment.
were for the company owners, who made huge
ofits and became extremely wealthy.
The only (8)