What is Industrialisation?
[[File:The Upper Furnace Pool - geograph.org.uk - 571108.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Upper Furnace Pool of the [[Coalbrookdale]] [[foundry|foundries]]. It provided water to power the bellows for the [[blast furnace]]s, and the turning and grinding machines. The railway [[viaduct]] was built in 1862{{ndash}}64, and still carries trains taking coal to the [[Ironbridge Gorge|Ironbridge]] [[power station]].]] [[File:Zeche Mittelfeld Ilmenau.jpg|thumb|300px|New factories, built during industrialisation. This is a drawing made around 1860]] [[File:Maddison GDP per capita 1500-1950.svg|thumb|300px|right|The effect of industrialisation shown by rising income levels since 1500. The graph shows the [[gross domestic product]] (at [[purchasing power parity]]) per head between 1500 and 1950 in 1990 equivalent dollars for selected nations.<ref>Depicting data excerpted from Maddison, Angus 2007. ''Contours of the world economy, 1–2030 AD: essays in macro-economic history''. Oxford University Press. [[commons:Special:BookSources/9780199227211|ISBN 978-0-19-922721-1]], p382, Table A.7.</ref> ]] '''Industrialisation''' (or '''industrialization''') is a [[process]] that happens in countries when they start to use machines to do work that was once done by people. Industrialisation changes the things people do. Industrialisation caused towns to grow larger. Many people left [[farming]] to take higher paid jobs in factories in towns. Industrialisation is part of a process where people adopt easier and cheaper ways to make things. Using better [[technology]], it becomes possible to produce more goods in a shorter amount of time. More things can be produced by fewer people. After industrialisation people also do more specialised jobs. For example before industrialisation, a [[cobbler]] made the whole shoe. He worked on one pair of shoes, finished that, and then did the next pair of shoes. Industrial [[shoemaking]] involves many people in making shoes in a [[factory]]. An individual worker has a smaller task, however. One person cuts t