HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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regarded highly
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looked down upon
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saw as equals
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saw as outcast
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did landowners and aristocrats view wealthy members of the middle class? Landowners looked down on those who had made their fortunes in the vulgar business world. What did Britain do to keep industrial secrets from the United States?
Detailed explanation-2: -A labor union is a group of two or more employees who join together to advance common interests such as wages, benefits, schedules and other employment terms and conditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Success in international trade created Britain’s high wage, cheap energy economy, and it was the spring board for the Industrial Revolution. High wages and cheap energy created a demand for technology that substituted capital and energy for labour. These incentives operated in many industries.
Detailed explanation-4: -Adam Smith, a professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, defended the idea of a free economy, or free markets, in his 1776 book The Wealth of Nations.