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March 16, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
April 3, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
August 9, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
December 23, 2007	Good article reassessment	Delisted
January 19, 2015	Good article nominee	Listed
May 12, 2016	Good article reassessment	Delisted
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Jan Oklum (2010-03-17). "Delvis bestått for Wikipedia (Partly passed for Wikipedia)". Bergens Tidende. Archived from the original on 2010-03-17. (Norwegian)Camilla Brautaset, førsteamanuensis i historie ved Universitetet i Bergen [...] Den engelske Wikipedia-artikkelen om den industrielle revolusjon er for eksempel skrevet ut fra et britisk perspektiv på historien, mener Brautaset. Camilla Brautaset, associate professor in History at University of Bergen [...] the English article about the Industrial Revolution has a British view on the history, says Brautaset

Section sizes

Section size for Industrial Revolution (74 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	10,277	10,277
Etymology	3,099	3,099
Requirements	1,274	1,274
Important technological developments	3,322	65,779
Textile manufacture	97	14,740
British textile industry	1,582	1,582
Wool	339	339
Silk	899	899
Cotton	1,667	1,667
Trade and textiles	1,089	1,089
Pre-mechanized European textile production	2,393	2,393
Invention of textile machinery	6,674	6,674
Iron industry	698	13,175
British iron production	1,192	1,192
Iron process innovations	11,285	11,285
Steam power	5,476	5,476
Machine tools	4,827	4,827
Chemicals	2,817	2,817
Concrete	817	817
Gas lighting	1,035	1,035
Glass making	1,229	1,229
Paper machine	959	959
Agriculture	1,686	1,686
Mining	1,882	1,882
Transportation	1,766	13,814
Canals and improved waterways	5,062	5,062
Roads	2,796	2,796
Railways	4,190	4,190
Social effects	1,714	50,754
Factory system	2,285	2,285
Standards of living	3,221	9,364
Food and nutrition	2,249	2,249
Housing	3,176	3,176
Water and sanitation	718	718
Literacy	2,214	2,214
Clothing and consumer goods	11,263	11,263
Population increase	1,852	1,852
Urbanization	788	788
Effect on women and family life	2,931	2,931
Labour conditions	24	14,768
Social structure and working conditions	1,274	1,274
Factories and urbanisation	2,542	2,542
Child labour	3,326	3,326
Organisation of labour	3,097	3,097
Luddites	2,152	2,152
Shift in production's centre of gravity	917	917
Cotton and the expansion of slavery	1,436	1,436
Effect on environment	3,575	3,575
Industrialisation beyond Great Britain	43	23,962
Europe	1,025	14,922
Belgium	4,247	4,247
France	792	792
Germany	1,652	1,652
Sweden	2,464	2,464
Austria-Hungary	4,742	4,742
Japan	1,404	1,404
United States	7,593	7,593
Second Industrial Revolution	1,823	1,823
Causes	4,871	35,434
Causes in Europe	9,851	9,851
Causes in Britain	13,992	13,992
Transfer of knowledge	4,096	4,096
Protestant work ethic	2,624	2,624
Criticisms	1,665	9,454
Individualism humanism and harsh conditions	1,017	1,017
Primitivism	1,820	1,820
Pollution and ecological collapse	711	3,336
The Anthropocene	2,625	2,625
Opposition from Romanticism	1,616	1,616
See also	602	602
Footnotes	28	28
References	22,014	23,576
Sources	1,562	1,562
External links	2,070	2,070
Total	228,132	228,132

On 6 October 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved to First Industrial Revolution. The result of the discussion was not moved.