Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Nonfiction Ideas Industrial Revolution New England Village William Morris John Ruskin The Arts and Crafts Movement Lewis Mumford Remote Work Hand Industry

What Do Lessons from the Industrial Revolution Have to Tell Us Today?

 A historical reversal of direction underway? k-b-W-unsplash T he nineteenth-century influenced the social-political and economic development of human life on earth in vibrant living color. Not! The nineteenth-century industrial revolution produced dreary over-crowded unsanitary conditions for human life, at its best. While eleventh-century walls raised humanity out of fighting for survival to living for prosperity, the nineteenth-century steam power saved hours in production labor and sank humanity into a dank swamp of pollution and over-population. Even the baroque city, which Lewis Mumford detested for its hollow core, had its saving graces. If most of the population in a baroque city lived in squalor, the wealthy still created a healthy balanced living style for themselves, not so in the industrial revolution. The idea of a healthy relationship between humanity and nature was erased in the cities during the industrial revolution. There is no more horrifying depiction of living cond