USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the domestic system?
A
A system where merchants work with their hands.
B
A system where people from rural areas move into cities.
C
A system where machines take over work that humans used to do.
D
A system where merchants work with machines in factories.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. Answer: Explanation: 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The factory system replaced the domestic system, in which individual workers used hand tools or simple machinery to fabricate goods in their own homes or in workshops attached to their homes.

Detailed explanation-3: -the domestic system or home working survived, usually associated with low-paid work by women. These workers, isolated in their homes, rarely joined trade unions or organized to obtain adequate pay and conditions.

Detailed explanation-4: -* The domestic system came up to satisfy the growing demand of cloth. The production houses were still located in the houses but raw material to these units were supplied by the merchants, who then collected the finished items and sold them in the markets.

Detailed explanation-5: -Before the Industrial Revolution, products were largely manufactured in a domestic system. In a domestic system, work is contracted to people who carry it out in their own homes. One of the most common cottage industry was textile manufacturing, including the production of wool.

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