13 sentences with 'industrial'
Example sentences and phrases with the word industrial and other words derived from it.
• « At the same time, European industrial power was overwhelming compared to the rest of the world except the United States from the last decades of the 19th century, from about 1860 to 1914. »
• « Although many historians have taken issue with the term "revolution" in describing what was much more of a slow evolution at the time, there is no doubt that the changes that industrial technology brought about were truly revolutionary. »
• « In short, the industrial revolution was as momentous in human history as was the agricultural revolution that ushered in civilisation back in 10,000 BC. »
• « Socialism was a specific historical phenomenon born of two related factors: first, the ideological break with the society of orders that occurred with the French Revolution, and second, the growth of industrial capitalism. »
• « Socialism sought to address both the economic repercussions of the industrial revolution, especially in terms of workers' living conditions, and the creation of a new moral order for modern society. »
• « Bakunin was deeply sceptical of both the industrial working class, which he believed all wanted to be middle class, and of Western Europe, which was full of individualism, selfishness and an obsession with wealth. »
• « However, the two countries were in many respects poles apart: Britain was an advanced industrial economy with a liberal constitution and a monarchy whose real political power diminished over time, while Russia was an overwhelmingly agricultural - even feudal - economy with a powerful autocratic head of state: the tsar. »
• « One of the characteristics of industrial societies, beyond industrial technology and the use of fossil fuels per se, is the fact that culture itself is mass-produced. »
• « From 1850 to 1900, the average Frenchman saw his real purchasing power increase by 165%. Comparable increases occurred in the other dynamic, commercial and industrial economies of Western Europe (and, eventually, in the United States). »
• « The "mass society" inaugurated by the industrial revolution came of age in the last decades of the 19th century, a century after it had begun in the coal mines and textile mills of northern England. »
• « For a brief period, Europe (joined by the United States at the end of the century) enjoyed a monopoly of industrial production and technology. »