In England, the demand for cotton will increase significantly. Originally, the only underwear available in England was wool, and many people suffered from "ringworm," a type of fungus that infects the skin at the base of the groin and surrounding areas (shins, thighs, etc.). However, the introduction of cotton imported from India has dramatically reduced the incidence of this disease.

In the United Kingdom, authorities issued numerous notices to wear wool underwear to protect the domestic wool industry imported from India, but consumer behavior was overwhelmingly strong in favor of wearing cotton underwear because it was comfortable and did not prickle the skin.

The last notice by the British authorities was that "when burying the dead, the whole body should be covered with a woolen cloth. This was so powerful that it was destructive to the wool industry of the time, since the dead could not object to it.

To meet such explosive growth in demand, the Industrial Revolution began. The cotton ginning mills (factories that extract seeds from cotton = ginning mills) in Lancashire became the driving force behind the Industrial Revolution.

The conditions in which industrial workers were placed were "so bad that they were thought to be the work of the devil. Low wages, child labor, frequent industrial accidents, and 18-hour workdays made it commonplace for workers to be disposable.

Further technological innovations began in England, where in the early 18th century a wealthy man named Richard Arkwright began spinning (yarn mills) and weaving by water power. At that time, all the wealthy people in England wanted to efficiently produce products using cotton, because the more they made, the more they could sell. Richard Arkwright amassed so much money in the cotton business that he is credited with creating a cotton empire. (I have yet to find out who his descendants are)

Concurrently, steam engines, which had been tried and tested by engineers, were gradually introduced to the cotton industry. As is the case today, there was no finished product from the beginning, so engineers were overworked to develop a "more efficient mechanism" under extremely harsh working conditions that were out of the ordinary.

With this industrial revolution and the supply of cotton from India, cotton products literally "exploded" into the European market. In order to increase production capacity, 200,000 children were engaged in the cotton ginning factory alone in Manchester, England (a factory where seeds are extracted from cotton = ginning factory).

There are no labor standards at all. Harsh working conditions would kill workers and reduce productivity, so the best managers were supposed to operate the factory on the very edge of the line where workers would not die. All kinds of industrial accidents were reported to have occurred, ranging from instant deaths, such as being caught in machinery, to gradual deaths due to breathing difficulties from cotton lung disease.
(Generally, the records of unnamed common people are not officially kept, so I am expressing my guesses.)

Such an industrial revolution (a death march of the working class in the name of the industrial revolution) spread rapidly throughout Europe. Such industrial expansion was of great interest to one man. Karl Marx, a German newspaperman.