The Industrial Revolution
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was a time of drastic change. This was the transformation from hand tools and hand made items, to machine manufactured and mass-produced goods. " Industrial Revolution, the shift, at different times in different countries, from a traditional agriculturally based economy to one based on the mechani ....
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.... implementation of the Reform Act of 1832, ultimately led to the improvement of working conditions.
In the eighteenth century a series of inventions transformed the manufacture of cotton in England and gave rise to a new mode of production - the factory system. During these years, other branches of industry effected comparable advances, and all these together, mutually reinforcing one another, made possible further gains on an ever-widening front.
Economies prior to were based on cottage ....
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