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The article identifies industrialisation with so called secondarisation of economy, i.e. a growing share of industry in the structure of employment and domestic product since the period of the industrial revolution until the contemporary servicisation of many key economies. The author also analyses the interpretation that associates industrialisation with the acceleration of long-term growth, highlighting the research tradition initiated by A. Gerschenkron, critical of statistical measurement of growth, conscious of the uneven course of industrialisation, and focused on international disparities. While considering the problem of "characteristics" and "types" of industrialisation, the author combines a "structural" approach with the tradition of Gerschenkron