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Explain why England became the harbinger of Industrial Revolution. Also throw light on its social consequences.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Industrialization

England became the harbinger of the Industrial Revolution because a unique convergence of political stability, agricultural surplus, accumulated capital, natural endowments, and technological inventiveness came together there before anywhere else in Europe.

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  • Political Stability and Secure Property Rights
  • Agricultural Revolution as a Precondition
  • Capital from the Commercial Revolution
  • Natural Endowments, Transport, and Labour
  • Social Consequences: A Widening Divide
  • Urban Overcrowding, Women, and Child Labour
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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