Industrialisation

thumb|The effect of industrialisation shown by rising income levels in the 19th century, including gross national product at [[purchasing power parity per capita between 1750 and 1900 in 1990 U.S. dollars for the First World, including Western Europe, United States, Canada and Japan, and Third World nations of Europe, Southern Asia, Africa, and Latin America]] thumb|The effect of industrialisation is also shown by rising levels of CO2 emissions. thumb|Industrialisation also means the mechanisation of traditionally manual economic sectors such as agriculture. thumb|Factories, refineries, mines,

developing country with high economic growth and recent industrialization and urbanization

society driven by the use of technology to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour

Proto-industrialization is the regional development, alongside commercial agriculture, of rural handicraft production for external markets. Cottage industries in parts of Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries had long been a niche topic of study. In the early 1970s, some economic historians introduced the label "proto-industrialization", arguing that these developments were the main cause of the economic and demographic growth and social change that occurred in Europe over this period, and of the Industrial Revolution that followed. Several theories were proposed to explain the mechanisms

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Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

organization for economic development in southeastern Poland

aspect of Germany's history

Reindustrialization is the economic, social, and political process of organizing national resources for the purpose of reestablishing industries in response to deindustrialization.