Consequences of the Industrial Revolution (In Our Time)
1760 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the far-reaching consequences of the Industrial Revolution. After more than a century of rapid technological change, and the massive growth of its urban centres, Britain was changed forever. Lifestyles changed as workers moved from agricultural settlements to factory towns: health, housing and labour relations were all aff
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Around 1760
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- US Constitution (1787)