The title makes the reader understand that the writer wants to explain/describe the most important features of the Industrial Revolution.

The key words are features and Industrial Revolution because they explain the writer's will.

The text is an argumentation text. It is about the inventions, new classes and new way of living of the revolution.

The text is composed of nine paragraphs, in everyone the writer reports data and quotation to confirm his ideas and to explain better his opinions. In each paragraph there's a different topic:

In the first paragraph there's the description of the text, in the second one there's the theses:  the Industrial Revolution is the substitution of the competition for the mediaeval regulations. In addition Toynbee, the writer, explains that there were four important changes connected with four English economists names. The third paragraph analyzes the growth of population which increased from 3 per cent.  to 18 cent. in 80 years. The fourth paragraph is about the causes of the decrease of the rural population. The fifth paragraph is about the changes the enclosure fields brought. The next paragraph describes the inventions during the Industrial Revolution like the spinning-jenny, Crompton's mule, the water frame and the self-acting mule, these invention brought many changes in men's work and the rose of the cotton industry. The seventh paragraph is about the expansion of trade and communication. There were invented railroads, built new roads and new water ways that improved communications and a large scale market. The large scale market rose the prices in the corn and in the rents of the farms.

In the last paragraph there's the conclusion and the description of changes of the habits of workmen as a matter of fact Industrial Revolution brought new inventions to help human-being to do a speed work but this brought also industries in which there is lot of people who works for lot of hours without having a rest and without rights.

The writer concludes saying that " free competition may produce wealth without producing well being". As a matter of fact industrial revolution brought lot of changes but people start to work lot of hours without rights and this brought insanity and lot of diseases. In addition before the growth of the industries the masters known their workers but after the industrial revolution their workers increase to hundred people and masters know their workers name anymore, this means that workers start to become a piece of the production and not a human-being.