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How did the Industrial Revolution usher in significant levels of socio-economic inequalities?

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It promoted the idea of profit over labor's rights

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The Industrial Revolution was based in a time where capitalism was much more free market based, and therefore, much less was done in terms of protecting workers. This meant that very wealthy business owners could extract much of the profit from their workers' labor and the economy with no push back, creating a massive wealth gap.

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