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DEFINITION of 'Industrialization'. The process in which a society or country (or world) transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services.
By 1850, Britain had become the first industrialized country in the world, with over half of its people living in cities. It controlled ninety per cent of Europe's steam shipping along with half of the world's iron and two-thirds of its coal production. However, outside of Britain, industrial factories were few and far between.