The English Industrial Revolution and the Fate of Small Farmers

doi:10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2005.02.007

Abstract

Abstract:

A census statistics shows that English small farmers, instead of disappearing after the Industrial Revolution, increased by the number in the late nineteenth century, especially in such an in- dustrialized region as Lancashire. This paper concludes that the industrialization created market demands supplied by small farmers, and in turn, created conditions for their existence and development. They made their contributions, by the benefit of technique advances, to economic growth, At the same time they were no longer the peasantry of the traditional type, but became a kind of rural pretty-bourgeoisie in their production, living and status.

Key words: England, Industrial Revolution, small farmer

CLC Number:

K561.4

Yu YANG. The English Industrial Revolution and the Fate of Small Farmers[J]. Journal of East China Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences), 2005, 37(2): 35-43, 57.

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