Intellectual Responses to Industrial Modernity
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Intellectual Responses to IndustrialModernity

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Abstract

The Industrial Revolution brought profound disruptions to the social, economic, and cultural life of western Europe. Those most affected by industrialization were the artisan classes, whose traditional means of livelihood were disrupted by new methods of manufacturing and who found themselves either out of work or thrust into the growing and increasingly impersonal industrial labor force.

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