How did the industrial revolution change the role of workers? check all that apply. workers made products in large factories. workers had to become highly skilled. workers used machines for repetitive tasks. workers made products on a large scale. workers earned considerably more money. workers made products out of their homes.

The Industrial Revolution entailed the transition from craftsmanship to production in large factories. From the above statements, the following apply to this process:

Workers made products in large factories. Factories substituted workshops located at the artisan's home. Workers used machines for repetitive tasks. The productive processes started to be organized in chain and divided in a certain number of steps, each of them entailing a repetitive task conducted by the same employee(s). This production system diferred from craftsmanship, where the whole product was manufactured by the artisan. Workers made products on a large scale. Achieving mass production is actually the aim of producting in chain, and is the reason that artisans type of work became less profitable and more scarce, because they needed a long time to produce a single good due to its uniqueness. Workers made products out of their homes. Workshops at home had been substituted by factories as explained above.

The other two statements were false:

Workers had to become highly skilled. Actually, this sort of repetitive work does not require such high skills as craftsmanship type of work. Hence, less skilled workers are demanded by the new production model. Workers earned considerably more money. There was a large number of employed people who moved from the countryside to the urban areas seeking for job opportunities. Employers had a long line of people waiting for a job, so they could set wages as low as they wanted.