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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 The system was generally superseded by employment in factories but was retained in the 20th century in some industries, notably watchmaking in Switzerland, toy manufacturing in Germany, and many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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It took many years for Lowell's idea to catch on--not just because it was revolutionary, but because switching to integration from the putting-out system required both hefty capital costs and the hiring of a large number of full-time employees at a time when U. The first examines Japan's industrial restructuring and economic relations between Japan and Korea, which he likens to relations between merchants and artisans under the medieval putting-out system (p. Here, it is argued that a group of leading manufacturers established the Worsted Committee to address an ostensibly unrelated concern: a severe and chronic bottleneck in the industry's supply of yarn, the result of rapid and extensive growth within the constraints of the putting-out system. |
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