Compare and Contrast the process of Industrialisation in France and Germany prior to 1914.

Compare and Contrast the process of Industrialisation
in France and Germany prior to 1914.
The rate of industrialisation of both Germany and France was at a very similar level
for much of the nineteenth century. With a few differences in the speed towards the
beginning of the twentieth century. But it is important to signify when the industrialisation
process began and ended. I believe that if it had not been for the war in 1914 that Germany
would have continued in its massive upturn and surpassed even Britain in industrial
magnitude. This was when the process ended as man power and machinery was at use for
militancy. The process can be marked as starting at the beginning of the 1800s because
although Britain had begun earlier the French and Germans had started later and continued
upon a slow road to industrial compliance. I have used three yardsticks by which to measure
the industrial development of the two countries Germany and France. The beginnings of the
industrial age, the production levels of iron, coal and steel in the second half of the century
when the real gains were made and the development of the transport systems mainly the
railways. These three categories are important as the first measures the ability of the
countries at the outset while the second measures their adaptability to a new kind of
industrialism. The railways and the transport systems are important because this can show us
the efficiency of coal transport which at this time was used in all major industries as well as
the governments efficiency in providing for the people as well as businesses, this should
improve as a country becomes more dependant on those people to keep it at the forefront
of industry.


During the first half of the nineteenth century both France and Germany experienced
a level of industrialisation which can be seen as slow and in respect of Britain, quite inferior
to it. French industries as a whole in the entire century were remodelled however it is far
from credible to say that the French had any kind of Industrial Revolution. There was a
gradual transformation of French industry along with a slow shift in the country's economic
centre from agriculture to industry. However, that shift in an entire century was by no means
as complete of that which the Germans experienced in the forty years after 1871. The
French industrial movement