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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a period of systemic transformation beginning in eighteenth-century Britain that altered manufacturing, energy use, and social organization.
Overview
Mechanized production and steam engines expanded manufacturing capacity, though industrial adoption spread unevenly alongside existing forms of manual labor. Factory systems concentrated employment in rapidly growing urban centers, reorganizing working schedules and living conditions. At the same time, advances in metallurgy and chemical processing developed alongside emerging occupational health challenges in industrial workplaces.
Why it matters
Responses to factory conditions and urban distress fostered trade unionism, labor politics, and early statutory workplace protections. These structural changes informed subsequent social theories, public health frameworks, and twentieth-century economic regulation.
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