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In the transition from manufacture to machinofacture, major disparities emerged between a small number of rapidly growing industrial areas and rural areas which were slowly deindustrialised and in the end were largely reduced to a sphere of agricultural activity. The most pronounced division was between the central-core area of England stretching from London to the North West and peripheral areas in Britain and Ireland.
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Dunford, M., Perrons, D. (1983). The Transition from Manufacture to Machinofacture 1780–1850. In: The Arena of Capital. Critical Human Geography. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17107-1_13
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