[[File:Maquina vapor Watt ETSIIM.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A [[Watt steam engine]]. The [[steam engine]], made of iron and fueled primarily by [[coal]], propelled the Industrial Revolution in [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]] and the world.<ref name="industrial"/>]]
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Industrijska revolucija obeležava značajnu istorijsku prektretnicu;. Ona je uticala na skoro svaki aspekt dnevnog života je pod njenim uticajem na izvestan način. Specifično, prosečni prihod i veličina populacije su počele da manifestuju ranije neviđeni stepen konstantnog rasta. Neki economistsekonomisti saysmatraju thatda theje majorglavni impactimpakt ofindustrijske therevolucije Industrialda Revolution was that theje [[Životni standard|standard of livingživota]] forgeneralne thepopulacije generalpočeo populationda begankonzistentno toraste increasepo consistentlyprvi forput the first time inu historyistoriji, althoughmada othersdrugi havetvrde saidnije thatdošlo itdo didznatnog notpoboljšanja begindo tokasnog meaningfully19. improvei untildo the late 19th and 20th20. centuriesveka.<ref name="Lectures on Economic Growth"/><ref name="Feinstein2014">{{cite journal|last=Feinstein|first=Charles|title=Pessimism Perpetuated: Real Wages and the Standard of Living in Britain during and after the Industrial Revolution|journal=Journal of Economic History |date=September 1998|volume=58 |issue=3 |pages=625–58 |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=4123540 |accessdate=6 May 2014|doi=10.1017/s0022050700021100}}</ref><ref name="SzreterMooney2014">{{cite journal|author=Szreter & Mooney|title=Urbanization, Mortality, and the Standard of Living Debate: New Estimates of the Expectation of Life at Birth in Nineteenth-Century British Cities|journal=The Economic History Review|date=February 1998|volume=51|issue=1|page=104|url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0289.00084/abstract|accessdate=6 May 2014|doi=10.1111/1468-0289.00084|last2=Mooney}}</ref>
The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain, and spread to Western Europe and North America within a few decades.<ref name="Harvnb|Landes|1969">{{Harvnb|Landes|1969}}</ref> The precise start and end of the Industrial Revolution is still debated among historians, as is the pace of economic and social changes.<ref name="revolution"/><ref name="google1"/><ref name="Rehabilitating the Industrial Revolution"/><ref name="lorenzen"/> [[Gross domestic product|GDP]] per capita was broadly stable before the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of the modern [[capitalism|capitalist]] economy,<ref name="The Industrial Revolution"/> while the Industrial Revolution began an era of per-capita [[economic growth]] in capitalist economies.<ref name="The Industrial Revolution ''Past and Future''"/> Economic historians are in agreement that the onset of the Industrial Revolution is the most important event in the history of humanity since the domestication of animals, plants<ref name="ReviewOfCambridge"/> and fire.
