What are the causes of the Industrial Revolution in Britain?
It’s quite difficult as some of these items are interrelated in quite complex ways. However, without the growth in population it is unlikely that there would have been the increase in urbanisation. The development of the enclosures increased the pressure on people to find work in the towns. With greater urbanisation came the greater exchange of ideas and a surge in the improvements in agricultural techniques and hardware. The competitive pressures of urbanisation also gave rise to the improvements in scientific discovery and engineering techniques, leading to the development of industrial mechanisation. These developments went hand in hand with upgrading of the transport infrastructure, which in turn increased trading opportunities, and reinforced the movement of people and further urbanisation. With all these changes going on generating a sort of social feedback loop, periods of political stability enabled a greater concentration on commerce which added further fuel to the revolution.
