and more specifically the move from farming /agriculture up to around 1840 and its impact on society. Could be non-fiction or a good fiction book.
For reference these are books I really enjoyed :
The Genius of Place about Olmstead
Bios of Van Gogh and Pollock, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
East of Eden
Anna Karenina
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New WorldMax Perkins: Editor of Genius Berg, A. Scott
favorite authors, Richard Russo, Richard Powers, Murakami, Ian Mcewan, Tolstoy, Turgenev
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About 700 pages of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 cover in great variety the economic, social, and cultural changes brought by the first industrial revolution
Every Farm a Factory by Deborah Fitzgerald discusses the impact of industrialization on agriculture in the US. Don’t know if this pertains to what you are looking for.