The factory system is a method of manufacturing whereby workers and manufacturing equipment are centralized in a factory, the work is supervised and structured...

A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where...

It was replaced by inside contracting and the factory system. The domestic system was a popular system of cloth production in Europe. It was also used...

organisational skills earned him the accolade "father of the modern industrial factory system," notably through the methods developed in his mill at Cromford, Derbyshire...

power; the development of machine tools; and rise of the mechanised factory system. Output greatly increased, and the result was an unprecedented rise...

The Factory Acts were a series of acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom beginning in 1802 to regulate and improve the conditions of industrial...

Factory was the common name during the medieval and early modern eras for an entrepôt – which was essentially an early form of free-trade zone or transshipment...

mining, metallurgy, and transport, and the widespread application of the factory system. This was followed a century later by the Second Industrial Revolution...

Chester, became the more expert in the art, and soon the beginning of the factory system appeared in a separation of spinning from weaving, the two originally...

rivers and overland trails to act as parts of a burgeoning factory system. The factory system was a nationally funded and operated trade network, in which...

European companies. In the 1850s, the "American system" was contrasted to the British factory system which had evolved over the previous century. Within...

Bibendum urged Frenchmen to adopt America's superior factory system, but to patriotically excel those factories' "inferior" products. As automobiles became available...

the water-powered water frame. The spinning jenny helped to start the factory system of cotton manufacturing. The spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves...

than the "spinning jenny", and propelled the adoption of the modern factory system. Another water-powered frame for the production of textiles was developed...

Trade Factory System was a system of government non-profit trading with Native Americans that existed between 1795 and 1822. The factory system was set...

product during the Industrial Revolution in the development of the factory system. Although some were driven by animal power, most early mills were built...

Workshops grew in size but were displaced by the factory system in the early 19th century. Under the factory system capitalists hired workers and provided the...

child labor, which an increasing number of factory owners were disinclined to hire. As the "factory system" matured, however, many women joined the broader...

society. New social and technological ideas were developed, such as the factory system and the steam engine. Work became more regimented, disciplined, and...

A factory reset, also known as hard reset or master reset, is a software restore of an electronic device to its original system state by erasing all data...

and contentious. Railroads were the major growth industry, with the factory system, oil, mining, and finance increasing in importance. Immigration from...

a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson, and the "Father of the American Factory System". In the United Kingdom, he was called "Slater the Traitor" and "Sam...

The Factories Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 29), also known as the Ten Hours Act was a United Kingdom act of Parliament which restricted the working hours...

up factory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A factory is an industrial site where goods are manufactured or processed. Factory or The Factory may...

the Eighteenth Century: An Outline of the Beginnings of the Modern Factory System in England, which fellow economic historian T. S. Ashton stated was...

to be of value as a reference in planning, devising, or changing a factory system. The work contains forty-eight chapters. Among other important topics...

with production occurring in large factories. Despite the obvious economic gains of mass production, the factory system produced shoes without the individual...

proprietor's factory. It replaced the putting out system, where contractors worked in their own facilities. Inside contracting was the system favored by...

Slater drew on his British mill experience to create a factory system called the Rhode Island System, based on the customary patterns of family life in New...

known for two works The Natural History of Society (1841) and Factories and the Factory System (1844). In the early 1840s he toured the northern English industrial...