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Nineteenth-century colonial photographs of workers on tea plantations in India and Sri Lanka – with women in saris gently plucking leaves from lush bushes and men in sarongs operating heavy industrial machinery – are powerful symbols of a chain of production within the British E…

The century-long disjuncture we know as the British Industrial Revolution (1750- 1850) transformed the way people worked, especially those who entered the new, mechanized textile mills that sprang up along rivers, first, and then concentrated in towns and cities, primarily in La…