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issue. The debate has been particularly heated in Great Britain: the optimists have argued forcefully that the Industrial Revolution caused a rise in real income and an increase in the standard of living; the pessimists, while conceding the long-term benefits of industrialization, have argued with equal fervor that at least for one or two generations it lowered workers' standard of living.' So conceived, the controversy is difficult to resolve,2 not only because of the shortage of vital economic indicators but also because of myriad problems posed by the psycho-
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