Confucius once said, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Unfortunately most people of the Industrial Revolution did not get this opportunity. Industrialization increased the productivity of manufactured items. This was done with steam-powered machines, boats, and trains. The negative effects of modernization are explained through the texts of Merriman, Orwell, Engels, and de Jesus. Except for the bourgeoisie, the majority of the population suffer because the poor are forced to live with deplorable homes, health, and working conditions. John Merriman discusses in A History of Modern Europe: The French Revolution to the Present how the living conditions of the Europeans were radically transformed historically as a result of the industrial revolution and the growth of modern cities. Families were often affected by the rapid growth of cities. Merriman states “... railways also entailed the destruction of large swaths of major city centers, displacing about 50,000 people in Manchester during a seventy-five year period, and many times that in London.” Due to the developing cities, many families were forced to live elsewhere to make room for the railroads. The railroads were used to transport the products that were being mass-produced. As modernization was flourishing, families could not afford to keep their babies. Merriman specifies “At mid-century, about 26,000 infants were abandoned each year in both Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and about a fifth of all babies in Warsaw. The most fortunate of the abandoned were left at the doors of charitable organizations created by states, municipalities, and churches.” These abandoned children grew in an unhealthy environment where the housing was over-populated and there were not enough resources. There were many health issues that formed as the industrialization expanded. Merriman states “Industrial pollution, including smoke and other smells, altered residential patterns, driving some middle class families to new quarters.” The smog produced by large smoke stacks from factories was to blame for the growing respiratory problems. As the air became unbreathable, the families sought refuge in other cities. Merriam explains “Between 1848 and 1872 in Britain, a third of all people died of contagious diseases. Despite attempts to improve water supplies and construct sewer systems in several large English cities, the decline in mortality was barely felt in the heart of industrial cities, where tuberculosis remained a great killer.” Diseases were spreading fast and health professionals could not produce enough vaccines for the several diseases. Furthermore, as factories grew so did job opportunities. The jobs that were offered required some to move out of rural areas to cities. Merriman presents “The tough lives of the latter reflected a too-often forgotten human dimension of the agricultural revolution, which increased the vulnerability of the rural poor.” Big company-owned farms took business away from small family-owned farms. The less business the family received, the more they had to find other ways of making compensation. Merriman reports “Many workers lived amid terrible smells of raw sewage, garbage, industrial pollution, such as sulfurous smoke, and putrid rivers and streams.” The living conditions for workers was unbearable. Workers were treated as though they are nothing but garbage. In addition, The Road to Wiga