What are the effects of industrialization?

What were some European actions and policies to address the effects of european industrialization?

• what did actions and policies did the European government make when they started realizing the environment issues with the industrialization

• Answer:

  Very important issue. One of the side effects of industrialization and the market is the income inequality tends to increase. This is true for the U.S., for Britain, for northern Europe, etc. http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2011/09/gini.html#more But high income inequality is not good for a society. http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/joseph-stiglitz-fate-top-1-bound-how- http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2011/1109_economic_mobility_winship.aspx or the economy. http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/04/growth_0 http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2011/09/Berg.htm http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/25/in-equality-we-trust/ When significant parts of the population can't get a good education, the entire economy suffers for generations: http://www.highereducation.org/reports/losing_ground/ar2.shtml etc. So northern European countries took action to address income inequality: progressive taxes, government subsidies of education at all levels, etc. The net result is that these countries have much lower income inequality and are more prosperous than the U.S. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-social-welfare-state http://streetlightblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/were-number-two.html http://www.prosperity.com/