Design for Large-Scale Production in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

The article focuses on the flow of goods westward from Great Britain to the North American mainland during the eighteenth-century. It states that the burgeoning population of colonial British North America was dominated by small-scale commercial farmers and there was considerable justification in the mid-eighteenth-century description of Pennsylvania as the best poor man's country in the world. It mentions that North America offered a large market of prosperous primary agricultural producers, hungry to buy finished and semi-finished consumer products which were produced locally.