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that are important, is that--well,
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two things at the beginning,
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first of all everywhere, and particularly in the case in France,
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the Industrial Revolution was first and foremost
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a continuation of forms of production that were already there;
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that we've over-emphasized the kind of technological advances,
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the super inventions of the eighteenth century in the textile industry,
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and that even in Britain--
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and some of you have heard me say this in the context of another course
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traditional ways of producing things,
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artisanal and domestic industry
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involving women doing outwork, or domestic industry,