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The industrial Revolution first originated in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century. It profoundly altered Britain’s economy and society. The most immediate changes were in the nature of production: what was produced, as well as where and how. Labor was ....

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.... the public enterprise instead of the family or manor. Tasks became increasingly routine and specialized. Industrial production became heavily dependent upon the intensive use of capital—physical plant and equipment produced for the express purpose of increasing efficiency. A reliance on tools and machinery allowed individual workers to produce more goods than before, and the advantages of experience with a particular task, tool, or piece of equipment reinforced the trend toward specialization. The growth of specialization and the application of capital to industrial production created new class distinctions. New social and vocational classes emerged ....