So this again leads to a tremendous reduction in the percentage of people needed by the society to produce food. An industrial revolution is generally accompanied by a huge release of people from agriculture who are available to move into towns and cities to take jobs in factories or in extractive industries such as mining. Often, this occurs before there are enough new industrial jobs to absorb the population being released from agriculture. It did not happen in the U. S. largely because there was a huge unsettled territory in the West. Indeed, in the U. S. many industrialists sent recruiters to Europe to recruit former peasant farmers being released from agricultural work just as the industrial revolution was in its infancy in those countries and agricultural workers were being released faster than they could be absorbed by new industries.
Industrialization brings about changes in institutions, too.
But industrialization require people to move to the cities, where a family becomes unable to grow its own food and make many of its own products because it does not have the land or the room. Depending on wages alone, the family begins to reduce its size to a level the wages will support. As states move to stop child labor, children became economic liabilities rather than economic assets. The industrial society also depends on mass literacy as more and more communication come in written form. To ensure that most people got the requisite literacy, the job of educating children is removed from home to school, where graduates, like so many pieces on an assembly line, are transformed into virtually interchangeable parts.