Why did some industries prefer hand labour to machines in the 19th century.(2M)
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Some industrialists in 19th century Europe prefer hand labour over machines due to the following reasons:
a. Machines were costly, ineffective, difficult to repair, and needed huge capital investments.
b. Labour was available at low wages at that period of time.
c. In seasonal industries only seasonal labour was required.
d. Market demands of variety of designs and colour and specific type could not be fulfilled by machine made clothes. Intricate designs and colours could be done by human-skills only.
e. In Victorian age, the aristocrats and other upper class people preferred articles made by hand only.
>Because industrialists had no problem of high wage costs or shortage of labour
>Industrialists did not want to invent machines that got rid of human labour
>The demand in the market was more for dinner varities of cloth.
Machines were oriented to producing uniforms.