Which of the following explains proto-industrialization?

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Production based on factories.

Production for local consumption.

Production for export.

Early industrial production precedes the stage of industrialization.

answer is D.

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"Early industrial production precedes the stage of industrialization", explains Proto-industrialisation. Factory growth is too often associated with industrialization. The histories of industrialization usually begin with the first factories set up. But this whole idea is problematic, as even before factories began to be established on England and European maps, there was already large-scale industrial production for not only national but international markets, and this market was not based on factories. Thus, it is wrong to associate industrially established factories with being established and growing. Therefore, proto (which indicates an early form of something) industrialization is rightly explained by the 4th option. Stages of industrialization were preceded by early industrial production.

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