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The Industrial Revolution and the Middle Skill
Prior to the industrial revolution, there was a lot of artisans who did all the steps in making a product. Otter says that at first the factory jobs that displaced the artisans required less skill and paid less. But then machines got more complex and so did the things they could make. And so factory owners started to need workers with more skills.