Urbanisation and industrialisation
What Urbanisation and industrialisation means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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These changes created a larger industrial working class and a wealthier middle class, while artisans and peasants faced insecurity, increasing popular pressure and contributing to the causes of revolution by 1848.
Industrialisation, especially mining and manufacturing, drew workers to cities such as Johannesburg.
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