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It was because of the First Punic War with Carthage, an northern Africane country. Hope this helps!
The company towns reinforced it by having special wages for people of different ethnicity or by racially profiling and segregating those that they didn't want to be equal with Caucasian workers. This caused an even bigger drift between people and distrust to arise.
The main thing is because Britain possessed the factories and other key factors of production. The agricultural and rural societies were transformed into urban and before the Industrial revolution the manufacturing was done in people's home and after that it was largely done in factories and the products were mass produced.
