Page "Industrial Revolution" Paragraph 131

Wallonia was also the birthplace of a strong Socialist party and strong trade-unions in a particular sociological landscape.

At the left, the Sillon industriel, which runs from Mons in the west, to Verviers in the east ( except part of North Flanders, in another period of the industrial revolution, after 1920 ).

Even if Belgium is the second industrial country after England, the effect of the industrial revolution there was very different.

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