Britain and Industrialization

In Britain as well as in the other three nations, industrial development was a function over the given country's ability to exert productive control over two lines of industrial development: fundamental and versatile raw materials that were implicated in industries down the line and a system of transportation that enabled the raw material to be passed up and down the lines of production and the downline industries to reach diverse industrial markets. In particular, coal and railroads both enabled and shaped the early successes of the Industrial Revolution. As well, in each of the cited countries there emerged a significant consumer market segment in textiles, which implied a well-developed textile-manufacturing industrial market and the means of shipping industrially manufactured goods to their users.

Belgium's industrialization process most closely resembled Britain's, mainly because it had fairly easy access to coal and iron and secondarily because Belgium's government, a monarchy formed in 1830, undertook to develop a goo

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eign traders and the locus of added-value manufacture: Raw materials came in, then went out as finished or semifinished goods. The case of the Austro-Hungarian Empire vis-a-vis Britain must be seen in regional terms. Cameron cites fact that the western areas were industrializing along British, Belgian, and German lines before the eastern areas were (258). It is difficult to find similarities between Britain and the countries of Southern, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe except in the fact that little industrialization or foreign trade in agricultural goods got under way until the rail transportation structure was in place. It will be seen that there are more differences than similarities between Britain and the latecomers. The case of Russia is like that of Southern and Eastern Europe vis-a-vis Britain in its late-century development of industry and transportation infrastructure, but it is like Britain in that it possessed natural and agricultural resources that could be exploited once that infrastructure was in place. Differences: Latecomers Cameron attributes Switzerland's late industrialization to a virtual absence of railways for most of the 19th century, completely at variance with the British case, where transportatio
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