ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussion in the preceding chapter of this book. This study of Britain's industrial age has revealed the accelerating pace of economic change in the century between 1750 and 1850. Favoured with good natural resources on a relatively small island, Britain had an advanced pre-industrial economy with significant levels of trading, agricultural and industrial activity before it began to achieve higher rates of economic growth. The companion to this volume, The Birth of Industrial Britain: Social Change 1750-1850, analyses the complex social consequences of the economic changes that have discussed in this book, to assess the benefits and costs of industrialization on the first generations of people who caused by such a significant transition. These consequences traced in patterns of work and leisure, in religious and educational change, and in standards of living, to prove the implications of Britain's early Industrial Revolution for the mass of ordinary people who built it.
