what is the difference between the domestic system and the factory system?

Question

explain why and how the domestic system and the factory sytem are different.

Answer 1

The difference is in the name. In the domestic system, work was put out to workers who worked in there own homes, at their own speed and who were very much their own masters. In the factory systems people became wage slaves working for a master, tied to the requirements of the machines.

Answer 2

In the domestic system the workers got to work from home on their own time and were basically there own boss. Some isolation came with it though as they were contained to their own family and usually spent long hours working in their homes, so they had less time to spend with there extended family or friends. With that being said though they got to look after their own kids since they would be in their homes and their kids would be right by their side. In the Domestic system it was a harder quality of life, people were in harder working conditions. The factories were in close quarters so disease was rapidly spread, and the wages were not that great. Children were sent to work in the factories usually around age 5 and were given the most dangerous jobs in the factories. Many families in London had many children so they could get more money once they started working. The factories were very dirty and cramped together and their bosses were usually very mean towards the workers. It wasn't till the 1820's when the British Government passed a law against giving children the worst jobs. In the new laws it was also said that the wage was to be increased which lead towards the present day "Minimum wage". After all of this was over the cottage system seemed to have vanished this was because most people in the cottage systems were getting paid more and didn't make as much product as the factory workers could produce. Since all the cottage workers from all around the U.K were out of work they decided to move to London where most of the factories were and that what caused London to become overcrowded and Polluted.

Answer 3

The domestic system meant people making things in their own homes, sometimes for themselves, sometimes for other people. Sometimes a whole family woudl be engaed in the family trade, whatevder it might be. So for instance weaving was most often done by men (though there were some women weavers too) and the women of the family would spin the thread to be woven. The system continued after the Industrial Revolution, though on a smaller scale. The factory system meant that things were manufactured by machinery, in large factories, and those who operated the machinery were normally working for wages, for a fixed number of hours, whereas those who worked in the domestic system would be paid for what they made. The factory system was open to terrible exploitation before laws were made to regulate the practices of factory owners. People often worked appallingly long hours for pathetically small wages, and in very bad conditions.

Answer 4

Domestic System