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The 382 pages that link to Industrial Revolution, each with the reason it gives.

• Economic growthBroader topic: Industrialization made sustained increases in production visible on an unprecedented scale.

• Social changeBroader topic: Industrialization transformed labor, urban life, class relations, and family organization.

• ModernityBroader topic: It was a decisive historical origin of industrial modern societies.

• Wage laborBroader topic: Factory growth greatly increased the scale and visibility of wage employment.

• Historical causationBroader topic: Its causes connect technological change with labor, energy, institutions, and markets.

• Great DivergenceBroader topic: Industrialization made sustained productivity growth increasingly distinctive in parts of Europe.

• Means of productionBroader topic: Factory machinery and other new productive assets transformed work and economic organization.

• Technological changeBroader topic: Mechanization and fossil-fuel power produced a major acceleration in technological and economic change.

• Early modern periodBroader topic: Its uneven onset complicates any single date for the period’s end.

• MechanizationBroader topic: Mechanization expanded dramatically as industrial production moved from handwork to powered machinery.

• History of technologyBroader topic: It is a defining case of technologies transforming labor and production.

• Industrial societyBroader topic: Its early phase established the factory production and wage relations associated with industrial society.

• Social evolutionBroader topic: Industrialization transformed class relations, production, settlement, and state capacity.

• Cultural changeBroader topic: Industrialization remade work, family life, cities, and expectations about time.

• History of capitalismBroader topic: It marks a major transformation from commercial and agrarian capitalism to industrial production.

• History of engineeringBroader topic: Industrialization changed engineering from largely craft-based work into a driver of large-scale production.

• IndustrialisationBroader topic: It is the best-known early episode of industrialisation and a model for later transformations.

• Late modern periodBroader topic: It drove the economic and social changes most closely associated with the period.

• Sociocultural evolutionBroader topic: Industrialization illustrates rapid technological and institutional change across society.

• History of Science and TechnologyBroader topic: It demonstrates how technological systems can reorganize work, cities, and economic life.

• Modern era (history)Broader topic: Industrialization transformed production, urban life, and the balance of global power.