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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution is the transformative period beginning around 1760 in Britain during which machine power replaced human and animal labor, coal-fueled steam engines drove mechanized factories, and railways unified national markets at unprecedented scale.
Overview
The shift generated extraordinary productive capacity and profound disruption simultaneously: factory schedules reorganized human time, dense urban slums emerged around manufacturing centers, and society stratified into industrial classes whose conflicts became the foundation of modern social theory. Coal chemistry and metallurgy advanced materials science while new occupational diseases transformed medical practice.
Why it matters
Labor movements, trade unions, and socialist politics that emerged in response to factory conditions shaped the key frameworks through which 20th-century welfare states, labor law, and economic regulation were built, leaving a major and enduring imprint on every subsequent era of economic development.
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