In the early 18 century, population growth in Europe provoked by the improvement of health measurements ,the disappearance of the bubonic plague and better ways of transporting the crops, led to many rural works to look for alternative sources of income. Peasants could barely sustain themselves and their families with what they made from their farms, or sometimes didn 't even had land at all. This situation lead to the creation of the “putting out system”, in which, the merchants loaned raw materials to cottage workers, who the processed the raw materials in their workshops or “cottages” and returned the finished products to the merchant.(‘’’’)
This system had some advantages, such as helping the local economy by giving farmers a way of making additional income on winter. It also allowed merchants to avoid having to paid high wages for their employees, or being under heavy regulations. Additionally it helped young peoples start their own household early. However this system had many disadvantages as well. It didn 't gave workers any rights and merchants could not make workers increase their usual quota of goods. Merchants did …show more content…
The first one was transportation. The ocean keep britain safe from invasion, and allowed the country to invest a strong navy rather than in an army. British navy protected and ensured the country commercial power in the world. Its internal water system helped too, since there were rives everywhere in the country, which could be used to transport goods faster than by land, through it had its shortcomings. Then the steam engine came, product of many technological advances. It facilitated the transport of goods all across the nation. Usually, transport by river could takea some time in some places, but with the steam engine, transportation by land was made faster. thus allowing for an increase in revenue and construction of
This system had some advantages, such as helping the local economy by giving farmers a way of making additional income on winter. It also allowed merchants to avoid having to paid high wages for their employees, or being under heavy regulations. Additionally it helped young peoples start their own household early. However this system had many disadvantages as well. It didn 't gave workers any rights and merchants could not make workers increase their usual quota of goods. Merchants did …show more content…
The first one was transportation. The ocean keep britain safe from invasion, and allowed the country to invest a strong navy rather than in an army. British navy protected and ensured the country commercial power in the world. Its internal water system helped too, since there were rives everywhere in the country, which could be used to transport goods faster than by land, through it had its shortcomings. Then the steam engine came, product of many technological advances. It facilitated the transport of goods all across the nation. Usually, transport by river could takea some time in some places, but with the steam engine, transportation by land was made faster. thus allowing for an increase in revenue and construction of