Question

By 1850, how much of the world’s cotton cloth was produced in Britain?

Answer 1

The textile industry was the industrial sector where the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and can be considered the prototype of it: abundant and cheap raw material, factories where production was concentrated, constant renewal of technology, importance of the market, continuous growth and need for capital the development of the textile industry was due in origin to the pressure of the demand for manufactured products due to the population increase, due to the beginning of the demographic transition, characterized by a clear decrease in mortality and a maintenance of high birth rates.