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Industrial Societies

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Industrial societies use mechanized production and external energy sources, concentrating work in factories and populations in cities.

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Steam and then electricity move production out of the household and into a building people travel to.

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Treating industrialization as merely new machinery misses the reorganization of family life and time it forced alongside the technology.