The Industrial Revolution is the period encompassing the vast social and economic changes that resulted from the development of steam-powered machinery and mass-production methods, beginning in about 1760 in Great Britain and extending through some of the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Resistance to the changes in the form of machine-breaking riots and other Luddite actions was widespread, but ultimately futile.
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