Which of the following is not a reason why industrialists in 19th century Europe preferred hand labo...........

Major Events in World History(PCS) Industrial revolution

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Which of the following is not a reason why industrialists in 19th century Europe preferred hand labour over machines?

There was abundance of labour, so wages were low.

Hand labour produced uniform and standardised goods for a mass market.

Machines required huge capital investment.

Industries, where demand was seasonal, industrialists preferred hand labour.

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Explanation:

Some industrialists in nineteenth-century Europe prefer hand labour over machines because: Machines were costly, ineffective, difficult to repair, and needed huge capital investments. Market demands of variety of designs and colour and specific type could not be fulfilled by machine-made clothes.