You know my comment said some people, wealthy people lived better in some ways than present day impoverished factory workers? Farm hands, Eastern European serfs and so-forth did not live better by any means.
As other have noted, the industrial revolution also got much of it's impetus from peasant being driven off the land they cultivated.
As other have noted, the industrial revolution also got much of it's impetus from peasant being driven off the land they cultivated.