The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial
#0183;#32;Library of Congress, Washington, (LCDIGnclc01581) The Industrial Revolution, the period in which agrarian and handicraft economies shifted rapidly to industrial and machinemanufacturingdominated ones, began in the United Kingdom in the 18th century and later spread throughout many other parts of the world. This economic transformation changed not only how work