In fact, another industrial transformation is under way, one that rivals the earlier revolution in organizational structure and management.

In the early industrial revolution the villge was the setting for the great Gleaning Case.

For an earlier revolution had occurred in the water: the teleosts, the so-called bony fishes, had appeared.

(1978) Rockdale: The growth of an American village in the early industrial revolution.

Accompanying the widespread printing of paper money was the beginnings of what one might term an early Chinese industrial revolution.

Breakthrough notions about nutrition fueled the earlier revolution in breakfast.

The proletarian revolution is a project, formulated on the basis of the earlier revolution but differing qualitatively from it.

Those forecasts - like many that accompanied the early digital revolution - never quite panned out.

He had never bothered with the paper assignats of the early revolution, which had proved worthless within a short space of time.

But over the past several years experts have come to realize that an earlier "preagricultural revolution" by prehistoric hunter-gatherers was at least as important.