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Industrialisation (also spelled Industrialization) or an Industrial Revolution is a process of social and economic change whereby a human group is transformed from a pre-industrial society (an economy where the amount of capital accumulated per capita is low) to an industrial one (a fully developed capitalist economy). It is a part of wider modernisation process, where this social and economic change is closely related with technological innovation, particularly the development of large-scale energy and metallurgy production. Industrialisation also introduces some form of philosophical change, or to a different attitude in the perception of nature. Industrialisation a number of important changes: - * Workforce moved from agriculture industry to industrial work producing manufactured goods. * Powered machinery was used to mass-produce goods so home based family businesses could not compete. * Population explosion * Towns and cities grew and most of the population was in large urban areas. Talcott Parsons (functionalist): industrialisation and...

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