Women in the work place!!!

I have learned so much about the social structure and the gender changes during the Industrial Revolution. The only social structure or classes during this period were poor and rich. The poor people worked for the rich who got richer because they owned the factories that were earning money and the poor were getting payed very little. The factories would grown and grown as time passed and they would need more workers. They brought children to work in the factories and women. The days would be very long with people almost falling alseep while they work. This was dangerous and did not benifit the workers because they did not get payed that much more. Even when the workers went home it was to old shack houses with straw beds. Life was not that great for people who were working in the factories. When you would work in the factories you would do the same job all the time all day long. Same process over and over and over agian. This made life so much fun! Not really, people hated going to work but they had to to earn money.
My theory for the way that art connects to the Industrial Revolution is that inorder for people to break away from working in the factories they would do art. Either paintings or sculputers or drawings and they would try and sell them to the rich people for money. If it was good enough art the rich people would want it in their homes and would pay a desent amount of money for them. This was much better than working in the factories and you earned a lot more in one job. This is my idea of how the middle class got started during this time.
If anyone knows how the middle class really got started or has a comment about the art during the Industrial Revolution people feel free to comment on this blog post. Also if you have any comments about the structure in society or the gender roles also please feel free. Thank you!