Long Reads: Anton Jäger on Belgium, the World's Most Successful Failed State?
Jacobin Radio
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Industrialization in Belgium in the 18th Century
Belgium was one of places where british atceners, or british capitalists, arrived in the early nineteenth century. Since liege and large parts of bolonia were very close to a river, it was obvious that developing industry there was a good idea. The demographics of the transition are so unequal, and so many people are entering the labor force at the same time, wages are also very low. And since wages remain very low for most of the nineteenth century, that actually aids belgian industrialization.
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