Industrialized manufacturing began in New England, where wealthy merchants built water-powered textile mills (and mill towns to support them) along the rivers of the Northeast. In return for their labor, the workers, who at first were young women from rural New England farming families, received wages.

Use of machinery with the division of labour reduced the required skill level of workers and also increased the output per worker. The factory system was first adopted in Britain at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late eighteenth century and later spread around the world.

The factory system began widespread when cotton spinning was mechanized. Raw cotton would be brought to the factory and spun, bleached, dyed, and woven into finished cloth. Richard Arkwright is the person credited with being the brains behind the growth of factories.

How did the factory system change the way that goods and products are produced? Concentrated in set location, faster methods of production, craftsmanship replaced by lower skilled workers that did same task over and over. Low wages, poor conditions, allowed capitalist to reduce production costs and increase profits.

The factory system was a new way of making products that began during the Industrial Revolution. The factory system used powered machinery, division of labor, unskilled workers, and a centralized workplace to mass-produce products.

How did development of electricity change life in the cities? Electricity made it easier by replacing steam and Michael Faraday invented the electrical generators. Also made it so easier to power the world.

The industrialization of the late nineteenth century brought on rapid urbanization. The increasing factory businesses created many job opportunities in cities, and people began to flock from rural, farm areas, to large urban locations. Minorities and immigrants added to these numbers.

Some of the major health problems resulting from urbanization include poor nutrition, pollution-related health conditions and communicable diseases, poor sanitation and housing conditions, and related health conditions.

Poor air and water quality, insufficient water availability, waste-disposal problems, and high energy consumption are exacerbated by the increasing population density and demands of urban environments.

Urbanisation is one of the major problem towards pollution. The smoke from automobiles, factories and power generators make air unhealthy. The mixing of toxins in the soil is polluting soil which disturbs eco-system. The high density population in urban area consume more energy , food and water which causes pollution.

Urbanization, the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.