The word agrarian has appeared in 44 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 6 in the guest essay “The Research We Need to Understand A.I. Is Falling Apart” by Henry J. Farrell, Alison Gopnik and James Evans:
Nineteenth-century industrialization led to a series of huge social upheavals in which people left agrarian lives in the countryside for jobs in cities. Subjects were increasingly becoming citizens who could vote and influence policy to some degree and were educated in government-funded schools.
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