Explain the importance of proto-industrialisation.
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Proto industrialisation is the period before the present industrialisation phase.
This phase is not dependent on factory systems.
The activity of Proto industrialisation mostly occurred in villages.
Due to this Proto industrialisation there occurred a lot of economic developments in the villages of the country (Europe).
This Proto industrialisation supported the economy of villagers as all the members in a single family involved in production process of goods. Thus there was no shrinkage in the income of contry side people.
Answer:
Proto-industrialisation is referred to as the phase of industrialisation that existed even before factories began in England and Europe. There was a huge large-scale industrial production for an international market but not based on factories and completely handcrafted.
Explanation:
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the merchants from Europe moved to the countryside, supplying money to peasants and artisans, and were requested to produce for an international market.
Merchants were restricted and stated that not to expand their production within towns because rulers granted different guilds the monopoly right to produce and trade in specific products.
In the countryside, poor peasants and artisans eagerly and happily agreed so that they could remain in the countryside and continue the cultivation in their small plots.
The Proto-industrial system was hence a part of a network of commercial exchanges which was controlled by merchants.
Even before factories began to start on the landscape of England and Europe, there was a large scale industrial production for an international market. But this was not based on factories or industries.
Many historians of that age consider this phase of industrialization as proto-industrialization or also as the precursor to industrialization.
During this period, most of the goods were hand-manufactured or hand made by the trained crafts-persons for the international market.