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agriculture and the fading of the threat of famine
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and the fading of the threat of plague.
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There was the rise of manufacture,
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and then the factory system, especially the textile industry,
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and the associated
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and unregulated horrors of things such as long hours,
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low wages, child labor.
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You know, too, that across Europe,
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urban populations doubled in the first half of the nineteenth century,
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and in so doing overwhelmed the infrastructure of available jobs,
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the housing stock, sanitary arrangements,
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and all the rest, so that we see the rise