Houses like this were traditional in the Highlands of Scotland before the Industrial Revolution. Today most people in Scotland live in urban areas - large towns or cities. Families lived in the ...

In this admirably short and graceful book, Klaus Schwab takes us on a breathless tour of a technological, economic, and social revolution. The first industrial revolution ... anything humankind has ...

The industrial revolution stands out as a time of great ... unions was the National Labor Union which truly came into force after the Civil War but was reasonably short-lived.

The foundations of the modern world were laid by one major event—the industrial revolution. A profusion of new technologies and manufacturing processes, accompanied by innovations in finance and ...

Why should industrial organizations be eager to invest in safety? First and foremost, it’s easier to convince talented ...

It can be read as an allegory to the impact of the First Industrial Revolution on the new world. The First Industrial Revolution heralded production using steam, and the Second saw the usage of ...

But the outcrops of coal in this area meant it was only a matter of time before the area’s resources were exploited ... particularly during the peak of the Industrial Revolution. Sheffield is famous ...