Children in medieval English mining communities faced lead exposure matching or exceeding that in Industrial Revolution ...

Of course the Industrial Revolution was a good thing! If it weren’t, why bother having two more, with a fourth industrial revolution on the way? Well, that’s the trouble with human beings: we have ...

Human civilization has seen three major revolutions in its history. We had the Agricultural Revolution of the ancient times, the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th to early 19th century and ...

The Industrial Revolution was a period in history where factory work was beginning to claim dominance over the workforce, ...

Economist and energy visionary Jeremy Rifkin is senior lecturer at the Wharton School’s Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in ...

We take a step back in history to revisit previous industrial revolutions as we prepare for the current one. The thing about industrial revolutions is that you can’t predict them until you are sitting ...

Economists hope earlier episodes of labor disruption, from the Industrial Revolution to the Great Depression, can help us ...

The world is moving at a break neck pace, but technology can actually help level the playing field. We’ve all heard about how automation and AI could take away jobs, but as we become more and more ...