rts of the economy to produce enough to sustain these new people. Withbreakthrough methods in agriculture becoming widely used, farmers could produceenough food to feed a larger population. This in my mind is where the barrier of the oldways was broken. Once food production modernized, textiles modernized to cloth thelarger population and soon a snowball effect was in full force. Industrialization of Englandwas an effect of a rising population, spurred on by the virtual elimination of plagues and anincreased food availability.1. The British Industrial Revolution : An Economic Perspectiveby Joel Mokyer2. The Industrial Revolution and British Society, by Roland Quinault3. The First Industrial Revolution, by Phyllis Deane...
