The first society to undergo industrialization was ____.

NCERT (2025-26): “1.2 Urbanisation and Industrialisation … By contrast, a prime feature of industrial societies today is that a large majority of the employed population work in factories, offices or shops rather than agriculture. Over 90 per cent of people in the west live in towns and cities, where most jobs are to be found and new job opportunities are created. Not surprisingly, therefore, we usually associate urbanisation with industrialisation. They often do occur together but not always so. For instance in Britain, the first society to undergo industrialisation, was also the earliest to move from being rural to a predominantly urban country.”