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Reading

Read the below article. As you do so, consider the following questions:

  • What was the social and political impact of the Industrial Revolution in Europe?
  • Was the Industrial Revolution beneficial to workers?
  • What were the human costs of industrialization?

Lewis Jewsbury, ‘Industrialization: The First Phase’, World History International, 1992.

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