What was a significant reason for industrialists in Britain to prefer hand labour over machines during the Victorian era?

High demand for machine-made goods

Low wages due to labour abundance

Increased capital investment for machinery

All workers were skilled in machine operation

Video Explanation

Watch Video Solution

Keep Practising

Students who asked this also explored

Continue with nearby questions to strengthen the same chapter concept while you still have the context fresh in mind.

Q1.

What term is used to describe the early form of industrial production before factories were established?

Q2.

Why did merchants move to the countryside during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

Q3.

What impact did the expansion of world trade have on production before the Industrial Revolution?

Q4.

Which factor contributed to the emergence of proto-industrialisation?