“Necessity, which is the mother of invention” (Plato), but profit doesn’t hurt either! Until the first industrial revolution, manual labor was the way of the world. The world's great societies like the Greeks and Romans built their empires with their own hands. With the inventions of the 1780s-1850s, machines and innovation gave way to less manual labor. Marketing was born during this time because these new inventions needed to be sold to the public. Capitalism thrived on these inventions and mechanization was on the rise. The definition of capitalism is an economic theory focused on the free market. This meant no government intrusion or restrictions. It also meant that businesses were free to operate as they saw fit. This type of capitalism was known as Lassiz-Faire, which in French means “let it happen.” Businesses and business owners were free to operate in substandard conditions; it also condemned the worker who would work in these substandard conditions. Usually, children and unskilled people worked for low wages in factories. Children were used, due to their small size, to reach places inaccessible to adults. With low salaries, employees lived in substandard housing. Overpopulation and pollution have become a problem. Sometimes two or more families lived in one apartment. Without plumbing, they threw their waste into the street. Poor living conditions and poor sanitation gave rise to many diseases. The living conditions of the public and the poor working conditions were considered by some to be deplorable, something had to change. The mass immigration of people from farms and foreign countries was known as urbanization. The consequences of urbanization have been mentioned above. With the start of a new industry, we...... middle of paper ...... rent economic system ideas. One only has to look at the inventions and social changes of the last twenty years of world history to conclude that there is no doubt that more social changes, more new ideas, more new inventions and, who knows, may -even being a new economic system for the world, are to be expected. just around the corner.Referenceshttp://voices.yahoo.com/creation-capitalism-communism-during-industrial-8879931.htmlhttp://americanhistory.about.com/library/charts/blchartindrev.htmhttp://inventors .about.com/od/indrevolution/http://www.greaterthings.com/Books/Vision/Temporal/Ch-6_Past_2nd-Gath/Communism_birth.htmhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285981 /postsChapter II. Proletarians and Communistshttp://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htmMarx & Engels 1848, chapter one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto