| Front | Why did people move en masse towards urban centres during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? |
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| Back | The two revolutions. The industrial revolution drew people in with its factory systems, promises of work and social mobility. The developments of the agricultural revolution diminished the need for labour and swallowed up large quantities of land belonging to small subsistent farmers, forcing the peasantry into the cities. |
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