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Second Industrial Revolution Post — When Technology Remade the Social Order
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2026-05-12 15:44:44
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New post up looking at the Second Industrial Revolution (1870–1914) as a social transformation, not just a technological one. The steel-electricity-chemicals-combustion combination didn't just change manufacturing. It created new cities at unprecedented speed, built a salaried middle class, generated the political conditions for progressive reform movements — and provided the military technology that made WWI catastrophically destructive. The piece focuses on the structural changes: why cities grew so fast, what the new middle class represented politically, and why the same period that created the highest living standards in history also created the conditions for the worst war in history to that point.
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