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Introduction
Engels's history of the industrial revolution itself: how the steam-engine and the cotton machine broke up the old world of home-weavers, drew the dispersed rural poor into mills and cities, and manufactured — within two generations — an entirely new class, the industrial proletariat.
The industrial revolution named and periodizedThe weaver's life before machineryThe spinning-jenny and the steam-engineFrom cottage industry to factory systemFormation of the proletariat