Question

explain the proto-industrial system

Answer 1

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Even before factories began to dot the landscape in England and Europe, there was large-scale industrial production for an international market. This was not based on factories. This early form of industrialisation was called as protoindustrialisation and the industrialists as protoindustrialists.
(i) The merchants of the towns provided money to the peasants and artisans of the countryside to produce for the international market.
(ii) Cottagers and poor peasants who had earlier depended on common lands for their survival now looked for alternative sources of income.
(iii) Income from proto-industrial production supplemented their shrinking income from cultivation.


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