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Topics:
1. Changing worlds.
2. Changing worlds: Industrialisation
- Industrial Revolution in Britain: changing technology, agriculture and trade, exploitation and the new world of work, trade unionism, the growth of urban areas, social problems and political rights
- Industrialisation in South Africa: diamonds and gold, and changing work and lives in South Africa on the mines, the land and in the cities (including the 1913 Land Act)
- Sugar and labour in Natal
- Early trade union movements
3. Resisting British control
