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  • Industrial Revolution
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION term usually applied to the social and economic changes that mark the...machine production and greater economic specialization...increasingly gathered in great urban factory centers...Industrial Revolution in Great Britain The ground was prepared...in close proximity in Britain was a decisive factor...transformed into the greatest textile centers of the...did not in fact end in Britain in the mid-1800s...organization was from 1860 to 1890. The Industrial...
     
  • Great Britain
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    GREAT BRITAIN officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland...often referred to simply as Britain. Technically, Great Britain...Great Britain. By far the greatest number of Britons (some...the bulk of the catch. Great Britain is one of the worlds...shift in Great Britains economic base, which has benefited...changing economy. The main industrial and commercial areas are...most important port is Greater London, which also has...
     
  • George III , King of Great Britain and Ireland
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    GEORGE III , king of Great Britain and Ireland 1738 1820, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1760 1820); son of Frederick...finally to the American Revolution . This policy of course...marked the onset of the Industrial Revolution . Social reform, although...revolution in social and economic thinking, assisted by...
     
  • Union, Labor
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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    ...purpose of improving their economic status and working conditions through collective bargaining...and the vertical, or industrial, union, composed of...labor organizations. In Great Britain Although there were associations...product of the Industrial Revolution. In Great Britain after the French Revolution...than they did in Great Britain and in the United States...Unions have also placed greater emphasis on organizing...
     
  • Strike
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    ...hours, better working conditions, union recognition...separation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations from the...Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations ), such...struck in the middle of an economic depression. With the...freedom of action. In Great Britain, where the Industrial Revolution occurred first, strikes...
     

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