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business and finance manufacturing industryWhat was work like in the domestic system before industrialization?
Last Updated: 10th May, 2020
Domestic system, also called putting-out system, production system widespread in 17th-century western Europe in which merchant-employers “put out” materials to rural producers who usually worked in their homes but sometimes laboured in workshops or in turn put out work to others.
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Keeping this in consideration, what are the differences between the domestic system and the factory system?
Domestic system is a manufacturing method where an entrepreneur provides various homes with raw material, where they are processed by the families into finished goods. Whereas, a manufacturing system, where workers, materials, and machinery are assembled for manufacturing goods, is called a factory system.
Similarly, why did the domestic system need to be changed or upgraded? The differences between the Domestic System and the Factory System is the Factory System replaced the Domestic System because the used hand tools or simple machinery to make goods in their own homes or in workshops attached to their homes, when the Factory System put workers in cities and towns and crammed them into
Also Know, what were the disadvantages of the domestic system?
In conclusion, the factory system had more advantages compared to the domestic system. Work was faster, cheaper, more efficient and got paid more than farm workers. But equal amounts of disadvantages came along such as severe injuries, strict discipline, long tiring shifts and lesser freedom.
What changed during the industrial revolution?
The industrial and economic developments of the Industrial Revolution brought significant social changes. Industrialization resulted in an increase in population and the phenomenon of urbanization, as a growing number of people moved to urban centres in search of employment.