Project. Select any one industry in your region and find out its history. How has technology changed? Where do the workers come from? How are the products advertised and marketed? Try and talk to the employers and some workers to get their views about the industry’s history.

Discuss. Why did industrial production in India increase during the First World War?

Discuss. Imagine that you have been asked to write an article for an Encyclopaedia on Britain and the history of cotton. Write your piece using information from the entire chapter.

Discuss. How did the East India Company procure regular supplies of cotton and silk textiles from Indian weavers?

Discuss. Why did some industrialists in the nineteenth century in Europe prefer hand labor over machines?

Write in Brief. Explain what is meant by proto-industrialization.