industrial revolution

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industrial revolution also Industrial Revolution

The complex of radical socioeconomic changes, such as the ones that took place in England in the late 18th century, that are brought about when extensive mechanization of production systems results in a shift from home-based hand manufacturing to large-scale factory production.

Industrial Revolution

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the Industrial Revolution the transformation in the 18th and 19th centuries of Britain and other countries into industrial nations

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Industrial Revolution - the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial nation

technological revolution

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With the invention of steam and the Industrial Revolution there came into existence the Capitalist Class, in the modern sense of the word.

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