Title: The Industrial Revolution in Europe - ERIH
Headings: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN EUROPE
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN EUROPE
Content: But at the same time the tempo of mechanised work increased, and in many industrial countries thousands of people continued to live in overpopulated slums with catastrophic hygienic conditions. The industrial age in the Netherlands only really began around 1860. The country was not only covered in waterways it possessed very little natural resources. These two factors made it very difficult to build up heavy industry and construct railway connections. For this reason businesses tended to concentrate on developing pre-industrial trades. It was primarily the processing of agricultural products like milk and meat which laid down the basis for future mechanisation. Finally, around the end of the 19th century, major concerns were created in the new industrial areas of electro-technology and chemistry. Dutch and Danish farmers developed new forms of marketing. Organised along cooperative lines, they were able to market their agrarian products over ever greater distances: at the same time individual producers remained lords and masters of their own particular area of land.