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It depends upon the point of view that one has: Industrialisation, mechanisation, has transformed the way we live. It makes mass produced, machine made things cheaper. But previously agricultural work was labour intensive: Everyone had a job to do, everyone was made to be important in the productive process. Suddenly the Industrial process makes labour a comodity, workers lives & incomes are no more & no less that something to be used and discarded. This is not all down to John Kay & his flying shuttle, not by any means. But it is something which speeded the process of spinning & weaving and led to factories & slums & industrial, urban poverty. Which does not mean that before there was no such thing as rural poverty.

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