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                                        The Industrial Revolution changed the face of Europe.  Not only did it change the
                                        nature of work but it changed the nature of work in Europe. Fewer people worked in
                                        agriculture and more in manufacturing. Machines replaced humans and as a result,
                                        population patterns likewise changed.  Cities grew dramatically and for the first time
                                        cities in Europe had over a million inhabitants.
 
                                        Workers began to express their solidarity as workers. They organized into groups
                                        that were broadly based and therefore more powerful than past workers' groups.
                                        Workers began to think of themselves as a group and society began to recognize
                                        them as such.
 
                                        Another reaction to the Industrial Revolution was a change in peoples' intellectual
                                        convictions. The laissez-faire system did not meet workers' needs. The state, as
                                        a result, needed and became more interventionist, trying to remove the worst abuses.
                                        Karl Marx, drawing on early strands of Socialism articulated  in a new and inviting
                                        way.  Marxism gave a voice to the new proletarian class created by the industrialization