9 sentences with “industrialisation”

Germany had a large population, rapid industrialisation, a rich economy and proven military might.

Two other advances in transportation are often overlooked when considering industrialisation: paved roads and canals.

The Russian economy was overwhelmingly agricultural and rural, and industrialisation only came at the turn of the century in some of the large cities in and around western Russia.

The other main reason why Britain enjoyed such an early and enduring lead in industrialisation is that British elites, especially the powerful landed gentry, were not hostile to commercial enterprise.

Material goods, mass-produced, became much cheaper throughout the 19th century thanks to industrialisation, and in the process could be used and discarded with a much more casual attitude by more and more people.

From 1928, Stalin ordered a definitive break with the limited market exchange of the New Economic Policy, announcing a "great turn" towards industrialisation, state-controlled economy and agricultural reorganisation.

When these little animals die, they fall into the depths as a rain of food. This is why many scientists see plankton as a source of protein and are calling for its industrialisation. In fact, Japanese companies are already putting it into practice.

In Russia, however, industrialisation was limited to some of the major cities in western Russia, and most of the population remained poor peasants in small villages. This did not seem a promising scenario for an industrial working class revolution that Marx theorised.

With industrialisation, the huge numbers of poor industrial workers began to recognise that their social identity was defined by their poverty and their working conditions, just as rich industrialists and slum landlords recognised that they were united by their wealth and their common interest in controlling the workers.