What does a surviving Commonwealth of England mean for the American colonies?

The puritan work ethic would imo translate into eschewing machines in favor of human labor. Note the US with more puritans was several decades behind the UK in industrializing OTL despite lots of coal in PA/population ready to exploit it/less theoretical barriers for institutions favoring change.

In this ATL? No UK-equivelant to show the commonwealth it's possible so at minimum 50 years behind imo.
 
The puritan work ethic would imo translate into eschewing machines in favor of human labor. Note the US with more puritans was several decades behind the UK in industrializing OTL despite lots of coal in PA/population ready to exploit it/less theoretical barriers for institutions favoring change.

In this ATL? No UK-equivelant to show the commonwealth it's possible so at minimum 50 years behind imo.
What? Since when? Like this is the exact opposite of weber's protestant work ethic theory

And as if the reason why behind the U.S. lagging behind industry had anything to do with how puritanical they were rather than argrarian idealism or having to develop a massive frontier that they were constantly expanding into.
 
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