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-"The origins of [[public housing|municipal housing]] lie in the dramatic urban population increase caused by the [[Industrial Revolution]] of the 19th century. In the large cities of the period, many social commentators, such as [[Octavia Hill]] and [[Charles Booth (philanthropist)|Charles Booth]] reported on the [[squalor]], [[sickness]] and [[immorality]] that arose." --Sholem Stein+"[[Honoré de Balzac|His]] diagnosis of the evils of his time is as searching as it is fearless, and yet exhibiting neither the pessimism of [[Henrik Ibsen |Ibsen]] nor the moral [[squalor]] of [[Émile Zola |Zola]], with his gospel of [[sordid]] facts unrelieved by any spiritual aspiration." --''[[The Gentleman's Magazine]]'', 1894
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-[[Image:The Crystal Palace.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The usage of new materials such as [[iron]], [[steel]], [[concrete]] and [[glass]] is ascribed an important place, with [[the Crystal Palace]] by [[Joseph Paxton]] to house the [[Great Exhibition]] of [[1851]]. Historians have seen [[the Crystal Palace]] as a reaction to the [[eclecticism]] and "[[poor taste]]" of the [[Victorian Era]] fuelled by the possibilities of the [[Industrial Revolution]].]] 
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-The '''Industrial Revolution''' was a major shift of [[technology|technological]], [[socioeconomics|socioeconomic]], and [[cultural]] conditions that occurred in the late 18th century and early 19th century in some [[Western world|Western countries]]. It began in [[Great Britain|Britain]] and spread throughout the world, a process that continues as [[industrialisation]]. The onset of the Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point in human social history, comparable to [[neolithic revolution|the invention of farming]] or [[Civilisation#Development_of_early_civilizations|the rise of the first city-states]]; 
-almost every aspect of daily life and human society is, eventually, in some way influenced. 
-== Mass media == 
-Mass media and the Industrial Revolution: While some have placed the origins of [[mass media]] in the [[Enlightenment]] era, I hold that it is a product of the [[Industrial Revolution]] and started in the [[1830s]] with the arrival of advertising-supported cheap newspapers and [[mass literacy]]. See also: [[popular prints]]+'''Squalor''' refers to [[Dirt|filthiness]] and [[degradation]], as from [[neglect]] or [[poverty]].
-== Kitsch == 
-[[Kitsch]] is a by-product of the Industrial Revolution which made it possible to mass-produce cultural artifacts. See also the introduction to this entry, explaining the relation between [[The Painter of Modern Life|Baudelaire's views on art consumption]] and the idea of kitsch. Since the Industrial Revolution the Mona Lisa has become both high art (in its original form) and kitsch (in the numerous engravings and reproductions). 
-== Romanticism == 
-Concurrent with the industrial revolution there developed an intellectual and artistic hostility towards the new industrialisation known as the [[Romantic Movement]]. Its major exponents included the artist and poet William Blake, and poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats and Shelley. The movement stressed the importance of "nature" in art and language, in contrast to the 'monstrous' machines and factories. In Blake's words they were the, "Dark satanic mills" of his poem ''[[And did those feet in ancient time]]''. 
-==Socialism== 
-[[Socialism]] emerged as a critique of capitalism. Marxism began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. According to [[Karl Marx]], industrialisation polarised society into the [[bourgeoisie]] (those who own the [[means of production]], the factories and the land) and the much larger [[proletariat]] (the working class who actually perform the [[Labour economics|labour]] necessary to extract something valuable from the means of production). He saw the industrialisation process as the logical [[dialectic]]al progression of feudal economic modes, necessary for the full development of capitalism, which he saw as in itself a necessary precursor to the development of [[socialism]] and eventually [[communism]]. 
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-==See also== 
-* [[Pre-industrial society]] 
-* [[Dialectics of progress]] 
-* [[Information revolution]] 
-* [[Commercial Revolution]] 
-* [[Scientific Revolution]] 
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"His diagnosis of the evils of his time is as searching as it is fearless, and yet exhibiting neither the pessimism of Ibsen nor the moral squalor of Zola, with his gospel of sordid facts unrelieved by any spiritual aspiration." --The Gentleman's Magazine, 1894

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