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Industrialization is energy dependent. So the growth of industry is linked directly to the history of energy which is a function of infrastructure. We've seen what happens when that fails. This video gives a good background on how energy sources have been found and exploited.  http://ctcproxy.mnpals.net/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=19667&xtid=43343

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There is also a video to watch that explores the implications of technology as it relates to the labor movement, and other political movements, all of which are alive today and impacting our day to day lives more than ever. You can watch the video here:  https://mediaspace.minnstate.edu/media/Industrialization+Modernism+and+1886/1_r3pajfa

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The Industrial Revolution depended on two critical components that went beyond innovations themselves, although, clearly, inventions were significant. But the two that has given us the most benefits, and the most costs, are energy and labor. What roles did they play and how are they related?

Most people agree, Postman and Burke among them, that there are costs associated with implementing technology. But child labor, unsafe working conditions, poverty and slavery are all costs we have demonstrated a willingness to pay, or, rather, to make others pay. Energy, itself, is associated with costs and the implications of these choices last a long long time. Many inequities we see today in America are rooted in the 300-year-old economics of slavery in America, for example. What is the relationship among labor, energy and technology?

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