Reasons why industrialist preferred hand labour rather than machines and heavy equipment:

• The labour was available in large quantities thus it was cheap.

• The labour or the handwork was cheaper than the costly machines.

• The costly machines had huge investments which were not affordable by the industrialists, and they were more comfortable with hand labour.

• Machines had huge maintaining costs, and if they ever broke, it was tough or nearly impossible to repair them.

• Seasonal labour was used at certain times of the year as the machines could not be bought only for a seasonal purpose.