
Essence of the Industrial Revolution
The bourgeois revolutions on the European continent led feudal fetters were torn off the capitalist production rela to the downfall of feudalism in a number of countries . The tions and the way for their rapid development was cleared . In the countries where the first bourgeois revolutions occurred , and under their influence in other countries , as the capitalist relations matured , capitalist industry rapidly developed . This development did not consist in a mere increase in the number of enterprises employing wage workers or in a mere increase in the volume of production . The character of this development and its results were of much greater significance to society . The bourgeois revolutions destroyed the obstacles to the development of the productive forces , and considerably accelerated the growth of these forces and brought about a revolution in technology , i.e. , the invention of the machine . The development of capitalist industry , consequently , meant the replacement of manual labour , which predominated in the capitalist manufactories , by machine labour . The change from the manufactory stage of capitalism with its manual technology to the machine industry is called the industrial revolution . In this case the term ” revolution ” is used because the replacement of manual labour with machine labour considerably influenced the development of the socio – economic relations of the time , which in a certain measure determined the fate of capitalism .

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