factory system
Centralized manufacturing model
The factory system is a method of manufacturing that emerged in the late 18th century, concentrating workers, machinery, and materials in a single location under centralized management.
It replaced cottage industry and small workshops, enabling mass production through division of labor and mechanized processes.
The factory system transformed textile production in England.
- mechanizationConverting to machine operation
- steam engineThermal vapor motor
- mass productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
- assembly lineSequential workstation manufacturing
- child laborMinors performing paid work
deskilling · spinning jenny · textile mills · division of labor · wage labor · manual labor · Industrial Revolution · automation · standardization · working class · labor unions · surplus value · urbanization · power loom · unions · technological innovation · productivity · smokestacks
- industrializationindustrial revolution, Industrial Revolution, factories, manufacturing, urbanisation
- 1800sVictorian era, Napoleon, Gilded Age, Queen Victoria, Industrial Revolution
- British Inventionssteam engine, jet engine, spinning jenny, power loom, telephone
- Industrial Revolutionsteam engine, railroad, coal, iron, steel
- economic historystock market crash, Industrial Revolution, trade routes, Great Depression, gold standard
- labor systemsbonded labor, chattel slavery, child labor, compulsory labor, contract labor
factory systemfeudalism
Land-for-service social structure
agrarian economy · guild system · self-employment · manorialism