INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
PRE INDUSTRIAL EUROPE
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Question
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Too many people moved to the city.
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It was replaced by the factory system.
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The need for textiles decreased.
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Women who worked in cottage industries went on strike.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: With the advent of machinery in the Industrial Revolution, the cottage industry was no longer efficient and comes to an end. Machinery in factories could now produce more in an hour than a person working at home in an hour could. One of the major ideas of economics is efficiency.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -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.