Proto-industrialization

How it is used

Use for a historical process, not as proof that every producing region later industrialized.

Example sentences

1. Rural spinning expanded during the region's proto-industrialization.

   Manufacturing develops beyond household consumption before factory dominance.

2. The study follows a proto-industrialization that did not lead to large factories.

   The process does not require a predetermined industrial outcome.

Common collocations

• rural proto-industrialization
• proto-industrial production

Related terms

• industrializationThe process by which an economy shifts from mainly farming and handicrafts to large-scale manufacturing in factories using machines.
• agrarianRelating to farming, land and the people who work it, or describing a society or economy based mainly on agriculture.

More terms: Economic History

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• trade route
• mercantilism
• guild
• Great Depression
• Silk Road
• manorialism
• demesne
• latifundium
• sharecropping
• tax farming
• debasement