▶ Your Answer : The reading passage contends that the Industrial Revolution promotes people’s life in positive ways. On the other hand, the lecturer brings up several points that contradict this argument. First, the speakers argues that condition of workers were very bad because numerous women and children had exploited from their employers in factories. And plus, employees work long hours and there is nothing they can do but get low paid. This casts doubt on the reading passage’s claim is that rural people in factories get a great job very easily because mechanization creates much more factories which has a function that obtain many jobs for poor people in factories. And it also gives rise to certain chance to move to the city that is possible to find jobs as provides a higher-paying. Second, according to the lecturer, mining has a very bad way to upgrade workers condition, so their health problem getting worse more. The condition of mining gets a serious pollution problems especially respiration. This counters the reading passages’s argument is that miners gain improved health in terms of something that they produce enough coal than before, so they no longer had to suffer from the cold. This implies that the main reason when they had underwent about heating problem is solved. The final point made by the lecturer is that it is hard to compete in comparison to large producers. Generally speaking, agriculture workers expect comfortable urban life, however it is far from easy. This refutes the reading passages’s assertion is that the agriculture has advanced, consequently people free from toil work. Therefore, the workers was provided convenient life from greater crop yield. Thus, this innovation brings them not only producing more but also working less. |