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means The sweeping transformation, starting in the late 1700s, in which manufacturing shifted from hand labor and small workshops to machines, factories, and mass production, reshaping economies and societies in the process.

from The phrase stitches together 'industrial,' from Latin industria meaning diligence or active effort, with 'revolution,' from Latin revolvere, 'to roll back' or turn over — a word already borrowed for political upheavals like the French Revolution. Applying 'revolution' to factories and steam power suggested the change was just as total and irreversible as toppling a government. The term itself wasn't coined by the people living through the earliest changes in Britain; it gained currency later, especially through 19th-century writers and historians looking back and naming what they saw as a decisive break from the agrarian past.