GKE_Task_4.docx KE Task 4 Task 4: A: Two of the most significant social consequences of

GKE_Task_4.docx  KE Task 4  Task 4: A:  Two of the most significant social consequences of the Industrial Revolution are urban crowding and worker safety.  Urban crowding had the biggest effect on the poor and immigrants.  As the rich and middle class moved to the edge of the city, property owners bought the properties in the city and leased them to the poor.  The housing was often inadequately kept up and dirty.    “The growth of cities outpaced the ability of local governments to extend clean water, garbage collection, and sewage systems into poorer areas, so conditions in cities deteriorated.  High rents, low wages, and poor services produced misery in the midst of unprecedented growth” (The USA on-line, 2012).  A lot of the city workers, property owners and employers of these poor people and immigrants were corrupt and were able to get away with this mistreatment.  The Progressive Movement was put in place to stop the corruption.  Although it was not entirely stopped, there was less corruption.  One of the great effects to come from the Progressive Movement was that housing codes were established.  This meant that in order for a place to be considered livable and rentable, it had to meet certain criteria.  This required the property owners to keep some sort of maintenance on the property and to keep it in sanitary condition, which could mean running water and usable plumbing.    Due to the severe poverty that was suffered in these areas, the crime rates rose.  People were stealing or