GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Britain was known as the “workshop of the world” during the 19th Century CE.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mechanised production of cotton textiles made Britain the foremost industrial nation in the nineteenth century. And when its iron and steel industry started growing from the 1850s, Britain came to be known as the “workshop of the world”.

Detailed explanation-3: -To quote Robert Tombs, “If it made England what Disraeli called ‘the workshop of the world’, it did so by means of William Blake’s ‘dark, satanic mills’, squalid towns, and a degraded and exploited workforce” (The English and Their History, 2014, p.