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The Age of Industrialisation

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 10 · Social Science

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1. Before Factory Industry

  • Proto-industrialisation means large-scale industrial production for an international market that was not based on factories.
  • In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, merchants moved to the countryside and gave work to peasants and artisans.
  • Rural households produced goods for merchants while continuing cultivation on small plots of land.
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2. The Coming Up of Factories and Industrial Change in Britain

  • The earliest factories in England came up by the 1730s.
  • Britain's raw cotton imports rose from 2.5 million pounds in 1760 to 22 million pounds by 1787.
  • Cotton was the leading dynamic sector in the first phase of British industrialisation up to the 1840s.
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3. Labour, Wages, and Worker Life in Britain

  • Britain had no shortage of human labour in Victorian times.
  • Poor peasants and vagrants moved to cities in search of work, so wages stayed low.
  • Industrialists often preferred hand labour because it was cheaper than machines.
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4. Workers, Jobbers, and Resistance to Machines

  • Job-seekers often walked long distances to find work.
  • Will Thorne walked to London in November 1881 in search of seasonal gas-works employment.
  • Many workers stayed in night shelters, under bridges, or in casual wards while searching for work.

Key Concepts

Central concept: Industrialisation in Britain and India and its impact on production, labour, trade, and markets

Proto-industrialisationFactory system in EnglandCotton industryIron and steel industrySteam powerHand labour and workersWorker life and unemploymentResistance to machines

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