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Step 4: Put it All Together

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PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.

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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN BRITAIN AND BEYOND How did British innovators solve the eighteenth-century energy crisis? How did their solution help transform the British economy? What role did government play in continental industrialization? How did continental governments work with private individuals and companies to promote economic development?	NEW PATTERNS OF WORKING AND LIVING How and why did the makeup of the industrial workforce change over the course of the first half of the nineteenth century? How did ideas about “women’s work” change as a result of industrialization?
RELATIONS BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOR What role did workers play in shaping the development of the nineteenth-century industrial landscape? What is class-consciousness? How did industrialization help produce a new sense among workers of their own social identity?	MAKE CONNECTIONS How did the Agricultural Revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries make the Industrial Revolution possible? What connections can you make between industrialization and emergence of mass politics in the nineteenth century?