This historical event, which took place from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, shifted agricultural, rural societies to industrial, urban societies in Europe and North America. ... By the mid nineteenth century, industrialization spread across Europe to the United States, and marked the transition to special-purpose machinery, factories, and mass production, which simplified and divided the production process. ... By the end of the nineteenth century most governments outlawed trusts and cartels, but some monopolistic strategies continued into the twentieth century. ... Industrializatio...

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