industrial revolution

[DBusby]

how did the industrial revolution affect the population of Manchester?

[sddsddean]

How long have you got? This is such a complex answer, your best bet is to go to the library and get a book on it. Try and find something published by David & Charles. They specialise in Industrial Archaeology books. Basically the population skyrocketed(as in all new industrial areas) as factories and mills etc were built and people came in off the traditional farming based trades to work in the new workplaces. All towns thus expanded to house all these new workers and ancillary trades (building, shops and what we now call service industries) expanded as well.

[ChrisPBacon]

the filth, ruin, and uninhabitableness, the defiance of all considerations of cleanliness, ventilation, and health which characterise the construction of this single district, containing at least twenty to thirty thousand inhabitants. And such a district exists in the heart of the second city of England, the first manufacturing city of the world. If any one wishes to see in how little space a human being can move, how little air - and such air! - he can breathe, how little of civilisation he may share and yet live, it is only necessary to travel hither. True, this is the Old Town, and the people of Manchester emphasise the fact whenever any one mentions to them the frightful condition of this Hell upon Earth; but what does that prove? Everything which here arouses horror and indignation is of recent origin, belongs to the industrial epoch. From Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844