THE DARK SIDES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

SLAVERY AND COLONIALISM

For some 75 years, historians have argued about the role that slavery and colonialism played in industrialisation. The key work on this subject was published by Eric Williams, who came from the Caribbean  ...
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NAZI AND OTHER FORCED LABOUR

Forced labour is difficult to distinguish from other forms of economic exploitation. In pre-industrial times, it can be understood as the corvée labour that European peasants had to perform for their landlords ...
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WORKERS' MISERY & LABOUR MOVEMENT

In the second half of the 18th century, Great Britain experienced strong population growth - one of the prerequisites for the Industrial Revolution, as the necessary labour force was now available.
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DESTRUCTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

With the Industrial Revolution, humanity set in motion an ongoing, seemingly unstoppable process of ecological destruction and major health risks. Even if we ignore the large-scale transformation of natural landscapes ...
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INDUSTRIALISED GENOCIDE

The systematic mass murder of Jews and Roma and Sinti during the Nazi dictatorship in Germany is often characterised with terms such as "killing machine" or "factories of death" ...
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