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The Industrial Revolution: Why Britain First, Why Then
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2026-05-13 18:54:51
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Industrialization began in Britain in the 1760s — but why Britain, and why then? Coal geography, the enclosure movement creating an urban labor pool, a functioning patent system, and the spinning jenny all converged. The transformation that followed would change human civilization more than any event since agriculture, but its social costs — child labor, urban squalor, the Luddite uprising — shaped labor politics for two centuries.
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