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PROGRESS OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES. "The agricultural improvements were favored by: new machines driven by electric motors, chemical fertilizer production, food preservation by pasteurization, canning, improving transport cheaper and streamlined food distribution . - The development of transport and communications: * The transport progressed through the application of electricity to trains, trams and metros. The combustion engine favored the birth of the automobile. * The transport infrastructure is extended. The rail network facilitated the expansion of the western United States, Russia to the east. * Communications progressed thanks to your (Meucci), phonograph (Edison), cinema (Lumiere brothers) and radio (Marconi). "The extent of internal and external trade. * Domestic trade was encouraged to output the production. Emerged in the United States department stores and new techniques to promote sales, such as advertising, hire purchase. * Foreign trade acquired a global dimension by improving transport. The need for increased market competition between countries that resorted to protectionism and the formation of colonial empires.

-The development of big capital. The need for huge amounts of capital led to large-scale capitalism, characterized by: * The proposed consolidation is to eliminate competition. The ranges of concentration were the cartel agreement between businesses of this kind to fix prices or share markets, the trust formed by the merger of several companies of the same type into one company, and the holding or finance company, controls different companies to hold majority of shares. * The financial or banking concentration led to the emergence of large banks that granted loans to the industries involved as shareholders.

"SOCIAL CHANGES. The social dominance of the bourgeoisie stood, the proletariat improve their situation. Mass production down prices. In the labor field, the pressure of the labor movement led many states to develop a labor law. "Changes in the labor movement. * The labor movement gained members when the state recognized the freedom of assembly and association. Socialist parties were created in order to gain power. * An attempt to recover the workers' internationalism with the founding of the Second International in Paris, which was socialist. This condemned imperialism and war, considering that faced the proletarians of the different countries together.