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Boott Cotton Mills
The Boott Cotton Mills in Lowell, Mass., were begun with the high-minded purpose of proving that the wretched conditions of English workers were not a necessary by-product of industrialization.
industrialization
Also known as: industrial society
industrialization, the process of converting to a socioeconomic order in which industry is dominant. A brief treatment of industrialization follows. For fuller treatment, see modernization. How or why some agrarian societies have evolved into industrial states is not always fully understood. What is certainly known, though, is that the changes that took place in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution of the late 18th and 19th centuries provided a prototype for the early industrializing nations of western Europe and North America. Along with its technological components (e.g., the mechanization of labour and the reliance upon inanimate sources of energy), the ...(100 of 345 words)