[557] Before proceeding, it would be useful to define industrialization. In a broad sence, industrialization is the system of production that has arisen from the steady development and use of scientific knowledge (Hughes 1968, p. 252). In its strict sense, the term is meant to denote a phase in economic development in which capital and labour resources shift borh relatively and absolutely from agricultural activities into indystry, especially manufacturing. Although the beginning of modern industrialization has generally been dated with the emergence of the British industrial revolution in