The Enclosure movement and the British Agricultural Revolution made food production more efficient and less labour-intensive, forcing the farmers who could no longer be self-sufficient in agriculture into cottage industry, for example weaving, and in the longer term into the cities and the newly developed factories.
Vuguvugu la Mazingira na Mapinduzi ya Kilimo ya Uingereza yalifanya uzalishaji wa chakula kuwa mzuri zaidi na usiohitaji nguvu kazi nyingi, na kuwalazimisha wakulima ambao hawakuweza tena kujitosheleza katika kilimo katika sekta ya nyumba ndogo, kwa mfano kusuka, na kwa muda mrefu kwenda mijini na mashambani. viwanda vipya vilivyoendelea.