History glossary
Factory system
production organised around machines, workers, discipline, and centralised workplaces.
- Category
- Economic system
What it means
The factory system concentrated production in large workplaces where machinery, supervision, wage labour, and time discipline shaped how goods were made. It became one of the defining structures of the Industrial Revolution.
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