What were the positives and negative effects of imperialism?
Two sets of factors,however,changed this pattern. First,the increased productivity of industry made it ever more possible to spread material benefits to the workers,and even highly desirable to include them in the rising prosperity in order to expand markets. Second, the numerical growth of working class,its increased concentration,and a higher standard of of literacy made it increasingly easier for the working class to organise itself. In the end the threat of violence posted by working-class organizations to the established system at the end of 19th cent.convinced the higher and middle classes of the industrial nations that it was better to give in to some working class demands than to face the disruptive effects and possible social chaos that would result from violent confrontation. Conditions in Britain were somewhat better by the 1830’s,but child labour,low wages and wreched living standards were still common.Prostitution,alcoholism,and the other social diseases symptomatic of the
