Free Topic: Argumentative

There were several reasons why the Industrial Revolution started in GB rather than in France, the other great power of the day. in the first place, Great Britain had the money necessary to finance the larger enterprise. England's supremacy in the seas had encouraged commerce, and the England had been amazing wealth trough their commerce and industry. The newly rich class in that country was not the aristocratic group, but merchants who were willing to devote themselves to industry and scientific agriculture. They didn't believe that to engage in business was beneath them. The wealth at France, on the other hand, was largely in the hands of the nobility, and they were not willing to do the necessary work to develop industry.

In the second place, Great Britain had to undertaken very early the manufacture of inexpenive and more  practical products for which there would be an ever-growing demand from the people, especially the new middle class. Woolen and linen cloth as well as iron and wooden articles had been important products in England for centuries, while France produced articles in the luxury class. These demanded handcrafting. More over, the demand for luxury gold is always limited. England was the producer of golds that were needed in quantity and if a cheaper means producing them could be found, the markets could grow. So England was ready for methods that would make it possible to manufacture in large quantities.

In the third place, for a long time England had had large numbers of semiskilled workers. When the feudal system broke down and the manors wee turned to sheep raising, large numbers of people went to the many other occupations that developed skills. When the Industrial Revolution began, they were available to work on the new machines. Moreover, they were free and could move from place to place as the new the need for workers arose. This had not been the case in France. France was still chiefly an agricultural country with peasants bound to their masters in many ways so they could not easily move to the cities.

In the fourth place, coal was abundant in Great Britain, and a large amount of this cheap fuel was necessary for running the factories. There was late in tapping such resource because nearly all the people defended directly or indirectly on farming for their living.