An increase in wages, and a trend toward the legal emancipation of serfs in England. Without emancipated serfs (i.e. peasants) it's much harder to start an Industrial Revolution, because the surplus food you need for factory workers isn't grown by serfs who have no incentive to increase their productivity, and the surplus labor you need to go move to the cities are legally forbidden to move around.
Because "killing half of world population" happened over 300 years in an era with high mortality rates, you wouldn't expect much more serious consequences than that. Even if a village could lose 50% of its population in 4 days, that sort of thing also happened as a result of wars from time to time -- the plague acted like an increase in the frequency of war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death_in_England#Economic.2C_social_and_political_consequences
This is a particularly bad example of post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc thinking - everything that happened between 1000 BCE and 1800 CE somewhere near Britain has a few just-so stories how it caused Industrial Revolution.
But Industrial Revolution happened so far later that it doesn't make any sense; and it didn't look anything like what you're suggesting - major increase in agricultural productivity only happened in 1700s - far far after Black Death; and agriculture had local surpluses capable of sustaining large urban populations since pretty much Neolithic - a ...
Analysts of humanity's future sometimes use the word "doom" rather loosely. ("Doomsday" has the further problem that it privileges a particular time scale.) But doom sounds like something important; and when something is important, it's important to be clear about what it is.
Some properties that could all qualify an event as doom:
Examples to illustrate that these properties are fundamentally different: