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domestic systemor putting-out systemProduction system widespread in 17th-century Europe in which merchant-employers “put out” materials to rural home workers, who then returned finished products to the employers for payment. The domestic system differed from the handicraft system of home production in that the workers neither bought materials nor sold products. It undermined the urban guilds and brought the first widespread industrial employment of women and children. The system was generally superseded by employment in factories but was retained in the 20th century in some industries, notably watchmaking in Switzerland, toy manufacturing in Germany, and many industries in India and China. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Delta Air Lines is welcoming its fleet of 48 Song Boeing 757s back into the mainline domestic system as it reconfigures the aircraft's interiors and exteriors for this fall's launch of a new two-class, domestic long-haul product. TWA said the services were being held in cities ``most prominent in TWA's domestic system. After the breakup of the domestic system of cloth production, however, and the dislocation caused by demographic and economic change, the identities of place and past drew the attention of a Victorian lower middle class attempting to redefine "community" in its own image of social harmony. |
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