Concept
Industrialisation
Overview
period of social and economic change from agrarian to industrial society
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This took place pretty generally towards the year 1830, and the consequence was that the hitherto latent over-population was set free, the rate of wages forced down, and the poor-rate enormously increased. From this time the agricultural districts became the headquarters of permanent, as the manufacturing districts had long been of periodic, pauperism; and the modification of the Poor Law was the first measure which…
Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892
Close in meaning to Industrialisation; the term itself is not named.
The distinction between rich and poor was added to that between free men and slaves. This and the new division of labor constitute a new division of society into classes. The differences in the amount of property belonging to the several family heads broke up the old communistic households one by one, wherever they might have been preserved thus far.
Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, and the state
Close in meaning to Industrialisation; the term itself is not named.
After a certain, and not very advanced, stage in the progress of agriculture—as soon, in fact, as mankind have applied themselves to cultivation with any energy, and have brought to it any tolerable tools—from that time it is the law of production from the land, that in any given state of agricultural skill and knowledge, by increasing the labor, the produce is not increased in an equal degree; doubling the labor…
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
Close in meaning to Industrialisation; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Industrialisation
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- Modernization theory
- Gross domestic product
- Industrial Revolution
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- UNESCO
- Soviet Union
- Social class
- Sustainable development
- International development
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- Talcott Parsons
- Free trade
- Economy
- Economic growth
- Europe
- Unintended consequences
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Place in the tradition
Part of Chinese philosophy.