The industrial revolution started in England, in the second half of century XVIII. It was benefited I accumulate by it of capital that consolidated the capitalist system and placed end the great power of the mercantilista capital on the industrial. At the beginning of industrialization, the artesanato had its place of prominence. Its main characteristics were: communities possuam the means of production, the tools and raw materials. The activities were manual.
The activities had independent character, that is, he was done in any place and with the aid of the members of the family. The craftsman made all the stages of the production. From century XV, the consumption was extended. In this occasion the traders start to have interest in artisan activities, but making the had alterations. The manufacture appears, where the trader contracts the service of the craftsman, she distributes the raw material, and the work starts to be divides for phases. Different of what it happened in the artisan work, now the wage-earning workers lose the control on all the process of production. The division of commercial lands benefited the great proprietors, but it harmed the small peasants, therefore these had been with insufficient lands. Therefore migration p the city increased.
In the great cities the only form to guarantee the life was to work as laborer in the plants. This made to appear a new classroom: the proletariats. In the picture of employees of the plants the children also were enclosed, however these received wages well lower than of them the best ones adultos.em the textile industry of the cotton formed up to 50% of the diligent mass. In other activities, children used themselves of even 6 years of age. The hours of working was of up to 16 hours per day. It did not have vacation and nor rest in the weekends. Moreover, the conditions in the workstations were pssimas, that it at risk placed the life of the workers.