Industrialisation
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Industrialisation or industrialization is "the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian and feudal society into an industrial society. This involves an exten
Industrialisation also means the mechanisation of traditionally manual economic sectors such as agriculture.
Factories, refineries, mines, and agribusiness are all elements of industrialisation.
An 1886 portrait by Robert Koehler depicting agitated workers facing a factory owner in a strike
A panorama of Guangzhou at dusk
World-systems theory
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World-systems theory is a multidisciplinary approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system as the primary unit of social analysis. World-systems theorists argue that the
The 11th century world system
Dutch fluyts of the seventeenth century