trade came to a halt
workers were in great shortage
and possibly demanding higher wages. Depends on the overall economy of the certain area of the pandemic
It was "Russia" that was the last to industrialize, since while most of nations were going through the industrialization process, Russia was in the middle of various uprisings that eventually led to the Civil War of 1917.
First of all, Britain was the first to industrialize. Let that be known. But other than that, they industrialized because after the discovery of raw cotton in India, their output of cotton clothing did not match what the market wanted. So there was a race to see who could basically make cotton the fastest. Other than this, science of the enlightenment improved other aspects of city life and attracted more rural subjects to the cities.
