ABSTRACT
Industrial transformation in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries meant not only the rise of new industries and the reorganization of the old. It also entailed the decline of old industries and erasure of old methods of production. Earlier chapters have pointed out the significance historians attach to the spread of the rural domestic industries in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and the bridge these industries formed between agricultural and industrial development. Now we shall examine some of the failures of this rural manufacture or proto-industrialization. We shall trace the road to decline in some of these industries and production methods over the eighteenth century.
