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The domestic system 

Workers were not employees but producers who worked according to contracts of purchase and sale o Hence production remained independent of the buyer

Marx’s classification od industrial organisation Made three distinctions 

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Handicraft production o Involve production by workers using tools, not machines o Survives due to the niche market Manufacture o Differed to handicraft due to its more advanced use of the division of labour o Marx believed it had originated in two ways  By the assembling together in one workshop under the control of a single capitalist who all have different skills. Through which a product must pass through each to completion  One capitalist simultaneously employs in one workshop a number of craftsmen who all do the same work each worker makes the entirety of the good Large-scale industry o Employs machines not tools

Why was the factory introduced in the British industrial revolution There are two answers  

As soon as economies of scale in water and steam power generation were found, the factory became inevitable Capitalists saw ways of reducing costs by increasing the detailed division of labour and intensifying the work process o Supervision made it necessary to collect workers into a single place o This would be plausible if we could find examples where workers had massed together without machinery...