Chapter 2
The Industrial Revolutions
The Industrial Revolutions
"A revolution is a dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation" (Oxford Dictionary Online, www.oxforddictionaries.com, accessed 2019). People and organizations that don't align with change don't have a good chance of surviving. When most people think of revolutions, they think about a forcible overthrow that happened many years ago, such as the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution on July 14, 1789 (see Figure 2.1):
Figure 2.1: Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789
Nowadays, we still have revolutions. Consider, for example, ...
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