Describe the great economic hardship that prevailed in Europe during the 1930s

Describe the great economic hardship that prevailed in Europe during the 1830s.

Answer

Economic hardships:

1. Increase in population all over Europe
2. More job seekers than employment
3. Rural population migrated to urban areas, overcrowded slums

The 1830s were years of great economic hardship in Europe. The first half of the nineteenth century saw an enormous increase in population all over Europe. In most countries there were more seekers of jobs than employment. Population from rural areas migrated to the cities to live in overcrowded slums.

Small producers in towns were often faced with stiff competition from imports of cheap machine-made goods from England, where industrialisation was more advanced than on the continent. This was especially so in textile production, which was carried out mainly in homes or small workshops and was only partly mechanised.