Question

what do you mean by proto industrialisation how did it affect the rural rural peasants and artisans

Answer 1

It was the phase of industrialisation before the Industrial Revolution, where there was large- scale industrial production for an international market which was not factory based.
Impact:
(i) Full utilisation of family labour resources : By working for the merchants the poor peasants and the artisans could continue to remain in the countryside and cultivate their small plots.
(iii) Income: Income from proto-industrial production supplemented their shrinking income from cultivation. It also allowed them a fuller use of their family labour resources.

Answer 2

Answer:Proto industrialisation benefited the poor peasants and artisans in the folwloing manner:

1..Conditions in the country side proved favorable for the merchants to look for and provide money to the peasants and artisans who could now produce for the international market.

2. With the shrinking of the open fields and Commons, peasants were left with small plots of land not sufficient to meet their family needs , merchants who had now turned to the countryside provided an alternate source to the peasants and artisans.

3. It allowed peasants supplements their meagre incomes.

4. Peasants could involve their family members in production and could achieve full utilisation of labour resources.

5. It also enabled them to continue to stay in the countryside.

6. They cultivated for the in their small fields to meet the requirements of the merchants.

7.Artisans were provided with ready raw material and money which proved to be beneficial for them.

8. This helped in developing a huge network of commercial exchanges.

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