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What was ‘Proto-industrialisation’? Explain the importance of Proto-industrialisation.
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Proto-industrialisation
refers to the period when, factories didn’t begin to appear on the landscape of England and Europe, and
large-scale industrial production for International Market was placed.
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That
production was not based on factories
but was Hand Manufactured by trained workers.
- Effects on rural peasants and artisans:
- Open fields were disappearing and commons were being enclosed. People started looking for alternative sources of Income.
- Many people had tiny plots of land which could not provide work for all members of the household.
- Merchants came around and offered advances to produce goods for them, and peasants' households eagerly agreed.
- Income from Proto-Industrial Production supplemented their shrinking income from cultivation and allowed them a fuller use of their family labour resources.
