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Explain what is meant by proto-industrialisation.
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The term 'proto' refers to early form of something. Before factories began to dot the landscape in England and Europe, there was large-scale industrial production for an international market. This was not based on factories. Most of the production was done by cottage industries based in countryside. It involved decentralized, home based production. Merchants provided raw materials and collected finished products. Final finishing was done mainly in London. Many historians refer to this phase of industrialisation as proto-industrialisation. This implies to production and trade before industrialisation, which was earlier ignored by historians.
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