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• The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Homes through World History
  ...ges, the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, and the Post-Industrial Revolution to the present.
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• History of World Trade Since 1450
  ...oks at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution Industrial Revolution], the rise of [[capitalism]] and the effects of [[imperialism]] on the glob
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• Industry
  ...[[material]] or a [[service]]) within an [[economy]]. There are four key industrial [[economic]] sectors: the primary sector, largely raw [[material]] extracti ...lowing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution], perhaps a third of the world's economic output is derived from [[manufact
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• Pollution
  ...during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution industrial revolution], and extending into the recent past with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wik ...fuels] gave rise to unprecedented air pollution and the large volume of [[industrial]] [[chemical]] discharges added to the growing load of untreated human [[wa
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• Labor Unions
  ...ism), or attempt to organize all workers within a particular [[industry]] (industrial unionism). The [[agreements]] [[negotiated]] by a union are binding on the ...during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution]. Trade unions may be composed of individual workers, professionals, past w
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• Workshop
  ...g with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution] era, a '''workshop''' may be a room or building which provides both the ar
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• Romanticism
  ...ion to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution Industrial Revolution], it was also a revolt against [[aristocratic]] social and [[political]] no ...lightenment Counter-Enlightenment] emerged. The confines of the Industrial Revolution also had their [[influence]] on Romanticism, which was in part an escape fr
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• Change
  ...litical]] upheavals and [[pressures]] often forced change by [[violent]] [[revolution]] (as in North America in the late 18th century and in later imitators). By
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• Leisure
  ...ate in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution]. Early factories required workers to perform long shifts, often up to eigh ...olidays to seaside resorts appearing in the 1870s, a trend which spread to industrial nations in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] and [https://en.wi
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• Luddism
  ...awn of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution] in England. At that time Luddism [[inspired]] some protests that resulted
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• Park
  *5: an area [[designed]] for a specified type of use (as industrial, commercial, or residential use) <amusement parks> With the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution Industrial revolution] parks took on a new [[meaning]] as areas set aside to preserve a sense of
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• Transportation
  ...ior to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution]. ...Until the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution], transport remained slow and costly, and production and consumption were l
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• Modern
  ...ing of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution] in the late 18th century.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern]
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• Steam
  *'''''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution]'''''
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• Life Expectancy
  ...t during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution Neolithic Revolution] natural selection favored increased longevity. Nevertheless, all researche ...During the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution], the life expectancy of children increased dramatically. The percentage of
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• Weft
  ...purred the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution], with the "picking stick" and the "flying shuttle" ([https://en.wikipedia.
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• 2019-07-07-Is Urantia In for a New Great War
  ..., a new anxiety emerged, produced by another Revolution, the Technological Revolution, which also needs relief, and if man does not apply peaceful social means t
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• Artisans
  ...before the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution]. According to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_economics classical
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• Tools
  ...ols in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution industrial revolution]. Advocates of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology nanotechnology ...is_tiny.html?t=archive Will this Tiny Science Usher in the Next Industrial Revolution?], Katrina C. Arabe. Retrieved on November 6, 2006
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• Self-determination
  ...after, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution] many [[groups]] of people recognized their [[shared]] [[history]], geograp
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• Fuel
  .../wiki/Fossil_fuel Fossil fuels] were rapidly adopted during the industrial revolution, because they were more flexible than traditional energy sources, such as w
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• Fashion
  ...o the so-called fashion plates which were produced during the [[Industrial Revolution]], showing novel ways to use new textiles. For a broad cross-cultural look
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• Strike
  ...during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution], when mass labor became important in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor
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• Armor
  ...e evolving [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution industrial revolution], and [[influenced]] commercial development of metallurgy and engineering.
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• Churning
  ...until the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution Industrial Revolution], this was generally as simple as a barrel with a plunger in it, which was
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• Rest
  ...Victorian Britain in the late nineteenth century, late in the [[Industrial Revolution]]. Early factories required workers to perform long shifts, often up to eig ...olidays to seaside resorts appearing in the 1870s, a trend which spread to industrial nations in Europe and North America. As workers channeled their wages into
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• Standard of living
  ...org/library/Enc/IndustrialRevolutionandtheStandardofLiving.html Industrial Revolution and the Standard of Living] by Freddy Madero
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• Sabotage
  * In the Industrial Revolution, it is said that powered looms could be damaged by angry or disgruntled wor ...rsonal]] grievances. [[Luddites]] and Radical [[labor union]]s such as the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) have advocated sabotage as a means of self-defen
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• Chinese Philosophy
  ...By the time of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhai_revolution Xinhai Revolution] in 1911, there were many calls to completely abolish the old [[imperial]]
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• Society
  ...ers and gatherers, (2) simple agricultural, (3) advanced agricultural, (4) industrial.<ref>Lenski, G. 1974. ''Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology. ...r-gatherer tribes settled around seasonal foodstocks to become [[Neolithic Revolution|agrarian village]]s. Villages grew to become towns and cities. Cities turne
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• 2010-12-08-Growing in Mother's Circuits
  ...which your bodies have been compromised over these past 200 years of this revolution, I do invite you to receive more energetic chi (as some people call it) tha
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 8
  ...ich enables the feudal project to be overthrown and superseded in the long revolution (1). History is the continuous transformation of natural alienation into so ...r the red flag. Especially as the pleasure of giving, which appears in all industrial societies, defines very clearly the frontier between the world of calculati
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• Mirror
  ...ientific apparatus such as [[telescopes]] and [[lasers]], [[cameras]], and industrial machinery. Most mirrors are designed for visible light; however, mirrors de ...ess eventually arrived to London and Paris during the 17th century, due to industrial espionage. French workshops succeeded in large scale industrialization of t
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• Persona
  ...ictorian_England Victorian England] and the effect of England's industrial revolution on contemporary life, respectively, and their attitudes were clearly [[refl
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• Childhood
  ...lly]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution Industrial Revolution] during this era led to an increase in child labour, but due to the campaig
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 9
  The same bankruptcy is evident in non-industrial civilisations, where people are still dying of starvation, and automated ci Rousseauism and pastoral idylls accompany the first throbbings of the industrial machine. The ideology of progress, as one finds it in Condorcet or Adam Smi
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• Trial
  ...integral to the social and [[economic]] development since the [[industrial revolution]].
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• United States
  ...ies led to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution American Revolution]. On July 4, 1776, delegates from the thirteen colonies unanimously issued ...ructure]], and high productivity; and while its economy is considered post-industrial it continues to be one of the world's largest manufacturers. The country ac
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• 2012-03-22-The Great Struggle
  ...here were on the planet. You can look at the nineteenth century industrial revolution which changed the face of the planet basically and you can also reference h
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• Communism
  ...883; other communists, like [[Vladimir Lenin]], continued to prepare world revolution. ...der communist regimes showed their discontent in events like the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Prague Spring of 1968 or Polish Solidarity movement in early 1980s
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 7
  ...seum? Sociologi disputant. We hear from some quarters that in the advanced industrial countries the proletariat no longer exists, what with all these stereograms ...egard to everyday life, the bourgeois revolution looks more like a counter-revolution. The market in human values has rarely known such a collapse. The aristocra
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• Totalitarianism
  ...was much the most successful type of totalitarianism, as proved by Soviet industrial [[growth]] and the Red Army's role in defeating Germany. Only the "blind an # Laqueur, Walter, The Fate of the Revolution, New York: Scribner, 1987, p.131.
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• Progress
  ...was a dominant paradigm in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the Industrial Revolution.
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• Authority
  ...leadership), intermediate organizations such as schools, churches, armies,industrial and bureaucracies (organizational and bureaucratic authority) and society w History has witnessed several [[social movements]] or [[revolution]] against a system of traditional or legal-rational authority, which are us
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/Chapter 1
  ...ion of human relations to mechanisms of exploitation created everywhere in industrial societies. It issued from a will to transform the world and change life. People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without u
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• Conservatism
  ...alues. But it was not until Edmund Burke’s polemic ''[[Reflections on the Revolution in France]]'' that conservatism in the Western world, in its current form, ...nch Revolution]], also sympathized with some of the aims of the [[American Revolution]]. This classical conservative tradition often insists that conservatism ha
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• 2010-06-28-Flowering of Individuality
  ...ial Revolution: now you are having a technological, electronic/information revolution. ...for dozens and dozens of layers of security surrounding various military, industrial, financial, national and international secrets. Hundreds of thousands of y
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• Socialism
  ...ited that socialism would be achieved via class struggle and a proletarian revolution. ...vidual]] to coin to term "socialism" and the originator of technocracy and industrial planning. The first socialists predicted a world improved by harnessing tec
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• The Sciences
  ...t had few practical applications. However, with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, this rapidly changed. Today, science has a profound ef ...be used to make machine, electrical, and automotive parts, scientific and industrial instruments, decorative objects, containers, and many other items.
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• Power (sociology)
  ...s that their interests were the same as those of capitalists. In this way revolution had been avoided. ...]]s acting through wealth. Of course, the nobility used wealth just as the industrial elite used violence, but the ''dominant'' form of power shifted from violen
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