The text identifies which of the following as distinctive to Britain's industrialization?
a. the degree to which private entrepreneurship was responsible for industrialization
b. the ability of the government to mobilize the country's resources in an economically productive way
c. the health and prosperity of Britain's population (with the exception of Ireland)
d. the humane treatment of industrial workers
e. all of the above
a
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