After the birth of industrialization many factories were opened for business. Another advantage that influenced the era was that with the increase in the rate of production, the prices of products were lowered to improve the quality of life. Although the industrial age was extremely prosperous in terms of production and inventions, there were also several disadvantages. In the beginning there were absolutely no laws regulating working conditions, wages etc. Child labor was one of many major problems. According to Eastern Illinois University, children worked 10 to 14 hours and most received little or no breaks. It was all too easy for little fingers and limbs to get caught in the fast-paced machinery. Often the environment in which children worked contained aggressive toxins that they had to continually breathe in, causing premature illness and more often death. Not only were conditions harsh for children, but so were adult men and women. People were destined to do jobs for which they were not fully qualified. Another scam that emerged from the industrial age was overpopulation in modern cities. Mostly everyone came from a farm in rural areas then as things progressed everyone left the farm for a more urban life in the city so they could be closer to work. According to Eric McLamb of the Ecology Global Network, “At the dawn of the industrial revolution, in the mid-1700s, the world's human population grew by about 57 percent to 700 million. It would reach one billion by 1800. The birth of the Industrial Revolution altered medicine and living standards, causing the population explosion that would begin at that point and spill over into the 20th and 21st centuries. In just 100 years from the start of the Industrial Revolution, the world population would grow by 100%, reaching two billion people in 1927 (approximately 1.6