what changed the form of urbanisation in the modern period?
Answers
1. The textile mills of Leeds and Manchester, the industrial cities of Britain attracted migrants to the city. Three quarter of the adult population of Manchester in 1851 was comprised of migrants from rural areas.
2. Large number of workers, both skilled and unskilled arrived in London to work in the metal and engineering, footwear, wood and furniture, priming and stationery industries.
3.The first cotton mill was set up in Bombay, in 1854. In 1921 there were 1,46,000 workers, employed in 85 cotton mills During the period 1851 and 1931 only one fourth of the people living in the city were born in Bombay, rest of them came from outside. A large number of them had come from Ratnagiri to work in the Bombay mills.
Answer:
Industrialization changed the form of urbanization in the modern period.
Explanation:
(i) The early industrial cities of Britain such as Leeds and Manchester attracted large number of migrants to the textile mills set up in the late eighteenth century. In 1851. more than three-quarter; of the adults living in Manchester were migrants from rural areas.
(ii) London’s doming and footwear, wood and furniture, metals and engineering, priming and stationery, etc. attracted larc-e number or skilled as well as unskilled workers
(iii) The first cotton textile mill in 3ombay was established in 1854. By 1921. there were 85 cotton mills with about 1.46.000 workers. Only about one-fourth of Bombay’s inhabitants between 1851 and 1931 were born in Bombay: the rest came from outside. Large numbers flowed in from the nearby district of Ratnagiri to work in the Bombay mills.