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  2. Proto-industrialization - Wikipedia

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    Proto-industrialization is the regional development, alongside commercial agriculture, of rural handicraft production for external markets. [1] Cottage industries in parts of Europe between the 16th and 19th centuries had long been a niche topic of study.

  3. Sprouts of capitalism - Wikipedia

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    The sprouts of capitalism, seeds of capitalism or capitalist sprouts are features of the economy of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties (16th to 18th centuries) that mainland Chinese historians have seen as resembling developments in pre-industrial Europe, and as precursors of a hypothetical indigenous development of industrial capitalism.

  4. Industrialization of China - Wikipedia

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    The industrialization of China refers to the process of China undergoing various stages of industrialization and technological revolutions.The focus is on the period after the founding of the People's Republic of China where China experienced its most notable transformation from a largely agrarian country to an industrialized powerhouse.

  5. Economic history of Sweden - Wikipedia

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    Historical development of real GDP per capita in Sweden from 1910 to 2018. During the period 1890-1930 the Second Industrial Revolution took place in Sweden. During this period new industries developed, with their focus on the domestic market: mechanical engineering, power utilities, paper making and textile industries.

  6. Industrialisation - Wikipedia

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    Industrialisation or industrialization is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society. This involves an extensive reorganisation of an economy for the purpose of manufacturing . [ 3 ]

  7. Pre-Marx socialists - Wikipedia

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    Early socialist and proto-socialist philosophers and political theorists: Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus, ancient Roman statesmen who advocated heavily for policies in the interest of the Plebeians. These policies included land and wealth redistribution and subsidized grain to help the poor.

  8. Dual-sector model - Wikipedia

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    The theory is complicated by the fact that surplus labour is both generated by the introduction of new productivity enhancing technologies in the agricultural sector and the intensification of work. The wage differential between industry and agriculture needs to be sufficient to incentivise movement between the sectors and, whereas the model ...

  9. Uneven and combined development - Wikipedia

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    Uneven and combined development, unequal and combined development, or uneven development is a concept in Marxian political economy [1] intended to describe dynamics of human history involving the interaction of capitalist laws of motion and starting world market conditions whose national units are highly heterogeneous.