HPS202H1 Midterm: HPS202 Mid Term Prep.pdf
8 Nov 2012
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Turnpikes and canals: the transportation system that made the factory possible. The london brewers: industrialization of the brewing industry. A system of manufacture where raw materials are purchased by a central agent and distributed to a collection of independent artisans, working in their own homes, to be fashioned into goods. The central agent pays by the piece and collects the finished product from the artisans to be sold on, generally as refined material. Wool is distributed to artisan households in the cotswolds. Children card the wool, women spin the wool into thread and men weave it into cloth. (these stages would not always take place in the same household but in the cotswolds they generally did. ) Entrepreneur picks up the cloth from the artisan households generally to be sold on to tailors, sail makers etc. it is a means of producing a refined material for a further stage of production.
