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Условие.

Changing economies

3 Read the text. Say if the sentences are true or false.

1 Sheffield is a small town.

2 There is coal in the area around Sheffield.

3 Sheffield is famous for making iron.

SHEFFIELD'S INDUSTRIAL PAST

Sheffield is a large city in South Yorkshire with a population of about 0.5 million people. The wealth of natural resources in the area meant that the city developed as these resources were exploited. So primary and secondary sectors have always been important to the economy of the city and even in medieval times, it was important as a centre for the metal trade. Sheffield became especially important during the industrial revolution when hundreds of factories and furnaces were built making use of the local materials of coal, iron ore, and water.

In the 1860s, factories were attacked and factory owners murdered by desperate workers and the government tried to control the power of the unions. Even as late as the 1930s, George Orwell wrote a description of grim living conditions in Sheffield: 'It has a population of half a million and it contains fewer decent buildings than the average ...village of five hundred.'

When the process for making steel was invented in the 1750s, Sheffield became the most important centre of steel production in Britain and by the middle of the 19th century, Sheffield was the world's biggest producer of steel.

By the 1970s, the coal-mining industry was in decline and the 1980s saw the decline of the metal trades as steel was produced more cheaply in other parts of the world. Fewer people were employed as the process for making steel became more automated.

The unpleasant aspects of the industrial revolution were also part of Sheffield's history. Steel production meant long working hours in dangerous, unpleasant conditions and Sheffield quickly became one of the main centres for trade union organization and action.

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