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What does Industrial Revolution mean?

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  1. (historical) The major technological, socioeconomic and cultural change in the late 18th and early 19th century resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual labour to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture.
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Far from a product of the Industrial Revolution, child labor has existed since the beginning of time.
Indeed, as I showed in Mokyr, there is no single cliometric explanation of the Industrial Revolution.
Before the Industrial Revolution England's economy was based on its cottage industry.
Though we know Shakespeare was a glover's son, we tend to think that England awaited the Industrial Revolution for the classes to begin to mix.
Later, the business world turned to Manila hemp, accelerated by the Japanese Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution saw the start of what were known as back-to-back terrace housing.

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