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The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in Britain The period in British history known as "The Industrial Revolution" brought about unprecedented changes to British society, culminating in the transition from a mainly cottage industry-based economy around the time of 1750 to a almost fully industrialised and machine-based economy around 1850. This period of change experienced increases of output in agriculture where "both output per hectare and output per person rose" and also in manufacturing industry where "there was spectacular growth in output and labour productivity in two industries, cotton textiles and iron smelting" (both from More, 1997). The growth increases in these two sectors lead to greater specialisation in terms of trade, and also spurred an accelerated rate of growth in the economy as a whole. However, despite the transformations made to the British Economy during the Industrial Revolution, economic historians are still in dispute as to what actually caused the...

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