What new social balance did industrialisation create in European society?
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Correct answer: The importance of the middle class and working class increased.
Industrialisation expanded factories, commerce and towns. It therefore increased the economic and social importance of industrial workers, who sold their labour, and the middle class, which included entrepreneurs, professionals and traders. Aristocrats did not simply become the only influential group, and peasants did not vanish. Thus option A best describes the new social balance created alongside older elites.
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The importance of the middle class and working class increased.
Why is this the correct answer?
Industrialisation expanded factories, commerce and towns. It therefore increased the economic and social importance of industrial workers, who sold their labour, and the middle class, which included entrepreneurs, professionals and traders. Aristocrats did not simply become the only influential group, and peasants did not vanish. Thus option A best describes the new social balance created alongside older elites.
Which subject and chapter does this question cover?
This is a Class 10 Social Science question. Chapter: The Age of Industrialisation. Topic: The Making of Nationalism in Europe (Aristocracy, New Middle Class, Liberal Nationalism).
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