Industrialization+and+the+Enclosure+Movement

"What is the connection between industrialization and the Enclosure movement?"

The enclosure movement was a result of wealthy landowners becoming aware of the idea that if they increased their yield they would benefit directly and become wealthy. This effected peasants because their animals and their crops were forced into tiny areas in the center of town. Additionally, the large landowners could charge less for their crops because their yield was much larger; while the peasants, needed to make a good profit on everything they sold. The peasants were not able to keep up with the large landowners and had to look for other work. The landowners recognized them as a working force and would give them raw materials which they would spin into cloth and then sell back to the landowners. The cottage industry work was very labor intensive and began a trend of larger families. The concept of large groups of people each doing one task over and over again spawn the idea of small factories. Then, industrialization began when people from all over moved to the cities to each do one task, and eventually, parts of the process were done by machine. Industrialization would not have been possible without the enclosure movement because peasants would never have moved on.