¶ … 1770 and 1850, the economy of England became industry based as opposed to agriculture based as it used to be before (Toynbee, 1884). This was due to technological inventions that were ongoing in many spheres that were finally integrated. This led to the development of factories that really never existed before. The development of industries was owed to better transport system that created larger markets. It took the society some time to adjust to the new economic system different from the agrarian economy they were conversant with. This paper seeks to highlight why industrial revolution started in Britain. There were quite a number of factors that led to British Industrial Revolution. One of the major factors that caused industrial revolution in Britain was the expansion of trade save for the mercantile economic policies that had early been instituted. Because of decline of feudalism, farmers were no longer bound to the land...

The decline of the guild system also caused the British industrial revolution. It was impossible for a guild for a particular trade to control whoever was intending to set up new business. The decline of the system of customary prices made the market to become freer. I the old system one could change the price at times when there shortages in order to maximize profit.
Changes in how agriculture was done also led to industrial revolution in Britain. When the old system of communal farming was abolished and replaced with family farms, land was equally distributed as was the norm before. The share of land given to certain farmers was, however; not enough to make them survive as independent farmers. They subsequently went out of business and had to go looking for work in other destinations. When four field crop rotation concepts was introduced whereby farmers could rotate wheat, turnips, barley, clover or alfalfa in that order enabled farmers to rare livestock. Livestock products like milk, cheese, beef, and skin ha to be processed hence the emergence of industrial revolution. New scientific approaches also led to the advent of industrial revolution in Britain. It should not be lost on us that one of the pioneer scientific investigators of agriculture was an Englishman by the name Jethro Tull. The average agricultural surplus per worker doubled from about 25% to about 50%. The English farmers had learnt more about manure and other fertilizers. They were treating farming as a science and this led to realization of much yield (Kreis, 2011). English families, because of abundance of food, never spent everything they earned on bread. They started purchasing manufactured goods. Workers who were no longer needed in the realms…