Industrial Revolution: Key Terms [Relevant to Posts]

- Industrial Revolution: The transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to 1840

- Industrialism : A social or economic system build on manufacturing industries

- Capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for private, rather than the state

- Marxism: worldview and method of social analysis based on attention to class-relations and societal conflict, on a materialist interpretation of historical development, and on  a dialectical view of social transformation

- Classical Liberalism: political philosophy and ideology belonging to liberalism in which primary emphasis is placed on securing the freedom of the individual by limiting the power of the government

- Imperialism: a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force

- Monopoly: the exclusive possession or control of the supply of trade in a commodity or service

- Factory System: method of manufacturing, first adopted in England at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1750s and later spread abroad

- Industrialization: the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one

- Urbanization: The increasing number of people that live in urban areas. It predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas.

- Limited Liability (Corporations): Legal protection for investors from personal responsibility for a firm's finances

- Stock Market: A site for buying and selling financial interests, or stock, in businesses; examples include the London or Hong Kong stock exchanges

- Transnational Business(es): Incorporated or unincorporated enterprises comprising parent enterprises and their foreign affiliates. A parent enterprise is defined as an enterprise that controls assets of other entities in countries other than its home country, usually by owning a certain equity capital stake

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