How Did the Industrial Revolution Create "Work" in the Modern

question 24

Multiple Choice

How did the Industrial Revolution create "work" in the modern sense?

• A) It used machines to produce more goods, more efficiently.
• B) Work only became possible when a variety of consumer goods were made available in the market.
• C) It was the first time class struggle existed in society.
• D) It made the worker more autonomous.

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Definitions:

Average Cost

The aggregate expense of manufacturing, when divided by the quantity of items made.

Marginal Costs

The price of generating one more unit of a product or service.

Marginal Productivity

The additional output generated by employing one more unit of a particular resource, while holding other inputs constant.

Returns to Scale

The rate at which production output increases in response to proportional increases in all inputs.