USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Factory – place where workers and machines are brought together to produce large quantities of goods.

Detailed explanation-2: -The factory system is a method of manufacturing using machinery and division of labor. Because of the high capital cost of machinery and factory buildings, factories are typically privately owned by wealthy individuals or corporations who employed the operative labor.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the Industrial Revolution, family-based cottage-industries were displaced by the factory system, a method of manufacturing using machinery and the division of labor. The factory system was first adopted in Great Britain at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700’s.

Detailed explanation-4: -Examples include fulling mills, where workers cleaned woolen cloth, as well as hammer forges, glassworks, breweries, and early paper mills.