section_path: Social effects/Labour conditions/Shift in production's centre of gravity
section_name: Shift in production's centre of gravity
paragraph_text: Shift in production's centre of gravity
  
  The traditional centres of hand textile production such as India, parts of the Middle East, and later China could not withstand the competition from machine-made textiles, which over a period of decades destroyed the hand-made textile industries and left millions of people without work, many of whom starved.
  
  The Industrial Revolution generated an enormous and unprecedented economic division in the world, as measured by the share of manufacturing output.