6. Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
Aired Apr 23, 198545 min
Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by religious dissenters barred from all activities except trade. The invention of the steam engine, new forms of credit, surplus wealth, and opening markets laid the foundation for industrial society.
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