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. Before the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late eighteenth century, economies were based on agricultural production and handicrafts, using hand tools and basic machines. ... As production shifted from handicraft to mechanized work, capitalist accessed financing in order to purchase machinery and factories because machines produced goods quicker and cheaper than individual crafts persons. ......

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Goods were now being produced by machines rather than by hand. ... Immigrants fled to the urban area seeking employment and a better life. ... "Machines as the men: science, technology, and ideologies of Western dominance." ...

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Extra sewage, industrial wastes, fossil fuel combustion, plastic, fibers, machines, vehicles and more are the result of intruding multinational corporations. ... As developing countries go through industrial and urban development, the attempts to keep air clean have not yet started to happen. ...

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