The Industrial Revolution (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500-1900)

The Industrial Revolution that began in Great Britain in the mid-seventeenth century transformed the British economy—and later the economies of Western Europe and the U.S.—from a rural, agricultural system into an industrial society, centered around the factory system of mass production and specialized labor. The right mix of social, political and legal conditions in Britain at the time let to the discovery of labor. The right mix of social, political and legal conditions in Britian at the ...