THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALISATION
Jan 20, 2022
3 minutes
“THE SPARRING BETWEEN THE ‘OPTIMISTS’ AND ‘PESSIMISTS’ FORMED ONE OF THE MORE LIVELY DEBATES IN THE 20TH CENTURY”
Ever since the term ‘Industrial Revolution’ entered our vocabulary around the turn of the 20th century, historians have been debating what that transformative period in the 18th and 19th centuries meant for the ordinary men, women and children whose backbreaking work made it possible.
Indeed, the discussion over the social consequences of industrialisation on such an unprecedented scale – laying the groundwork for the
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