What if the enclosure of the commons had gone differently?

Open fields are fenced into private farms, more output, and a landless workforce with nowhere to go but the towns.

If it had gone differently: The countryside keeps its smallholders and its common land; the cities have no waiting army of cheap labour.

1. 1740Europe's population boom, Without a surplus of hands and mouths, there is no cheap urban workforce waiting for the factories.
2. 1780The Industrial Revolution, Growth stays flat and Malthusian; most people alive in 1900 live about as their great-grandparents did.
3. 1845The Great Irish Famine, The blight is contained; the Irish diaspora that will reshape Boston, New York and Chicago never forms.