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Second Industrial Revolution

A Dictionary of Sociology | 1998 | | © A Dictionary of Sociology 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Second Industrial Revolution See INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

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