industrial revolutions
Economic production upheavals
Industrial revolutions are periods of rapid technological and economic transformation that reshape how societies produce goods.
The first, beginning in late 18th-century Britain, introduced mechanized manufacturing and steam power.
Subsequent industrial revolutions brought electricity and mass production, then computing, and now artificial intelligence and automation.
The term often appears in singular form to reference any one of these eras: The industrial revolution changed everything about how people worked.
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- working classManual laborers collectively
- fossil fuelsCombustible prehistoric organic deposits
- RoboticsAutomated machine science
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Persistent lack of growth
stagnation · organic growth · evolutionary change · continuity · status quo
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Doctrine valuing farm life
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