Significance: It has greatly improved social productivity and enriched people's material life. The first industrial revolution greatly improved productivity and consolidated the leading position of capitalist countries.
Second, the time of the second industrial revolution: 65438+1970s-early 20th century.
Significance: The second industrial revolution greatly promoted the development of social productive forces and promoted the birth of emerging industries such as electric power, automobile and chemical industry. It makes the contacts and exchanges around the world closer, which is conducive to promoting the final formation of the world market.
Extended data 1, the background of the first industrial revolution:
The establishment of British bourgeois rule laid the foundation for the rapid development of British capitalism.
On the one hand, British bourgeois rule actively developed overseas trade, colonized, accumulated abundant capital, and expanded the vast overseas market and the cheapest raw material producing area.
On the other hand, the further implementation of the "enclosure movement" has gained a large number of cheap labor, a prosperous workshop handicraft industry, accumulated rich production technology knowledge and increased output, but it still can't meet the needs of expanding the market, so a revolution in production means is ready.
From 65438 to 1960s, in British capitalist production, large-scale machine production began to replace factory handicrafts, and the productivity advanced by leaps and bounds, which was called the "industrial revolution" in history.
2, the background of the second industrial revolution:
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