HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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the decline of the guilds
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machines using water or steam power were too big
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women no longer had time to give to their families or to do the domestic work around their homes.
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Parliament passed laws mandating mechanized production.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cottage industry workers usually owned their own tools. Under the factory system, the employers owned the tools. And in the factory system, power tools or machines generally replaced hand tools. The factory owner controlled the hours of work.
Detailed explanation-2: -It replaced the putting-out system (domestic system). The main characteristic of the factory system is the use of machinery, originally powered by water or steam and later by electricity.
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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The industrial revolution boomed with the invention of steam power, the steam engine, the railways and canals . Cottage industries were pushed to the brink of extinction, as mass produced goods were cheaper and faster to produce.