The term mouse fly is kind of a contradiction and one of the types of flies that brings the word fly in fly fishing almost as far away from something flying as possible - still surpassed by shrimp flies not to mention crab flies, but anyway...
One of the reasons Britain became rich was because the Industrial Revolution (factories and such) got off the ground there sooner. Britain had a large navy, and many colonies in other parts of the world, such as India, and Rhodesia.
Because of the Industrial Revolution,British society changed thoroughly, rapidly, and permanently. Throughout the Revolution, workers, owners, and the government responded differently to its negative effects.As we have seen, in the early years of the Industrial Revolution, the government and the owners largely expected that the marketplace would magically self-correct the worst ills.n the previous section on the effects of the Industrial Revolution, you learned about the economic system known as capitalism (the free market economy), in which private businesses compete to produce the best products and services for consumers.