Question

What kind of releastion ship development between the towns and the country side under the proto industrialisation production system?

Answer 1

Answer:

(i) Merchants were based in towns but the work was done mostly in the countryside by the peasant households.

(ii) A merchant clothier in England purchased wool from a wool stapler, and carried it to the spinners: the yarn (thread) that was spun was taken in subsequent stages of production to weavers, fullers, and then to dyers.

(iii) The finishing was done in London before the export merchant sold the cloth in the international market.