cottage industry
Families often worked with hand tools or small equipment. This topic is part of Economic History within History. This page currently draws on 4 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
cottage industry trivia questions
Cottage industry produces goods mainly where?
Answer: Homes or small workshops
Bonus fact: Families often worked with hand tools or small equipment.
What textile-production system before factories sent raw materials to workers' homes?
Answer: Putting-out system
Bonus fact: Merchants supplied materials and collected finished goods.
What major historical change reduced the importance of cottage industry in many sectors?
Answer: Industrial Revolution
Bonus fact: Mechanized factories outproduced many home workshops.
What earlier production model did factories increasingly replace?
Answer: Cottage industry
Bonus fact: Home-based production gave way to centralized machinery.