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How far does Quarry Bank Mill demonstrate the methods of factory production introduced during the Industrial Revolution ?
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How far does Quarry Bank Mill demonstrate the methods of factory production introduced during the Industrial Revolution ? Under the domestic system, in textile production the entire process took far longer and was much less efficient than under the later industrial system. This was due to a number of reasons: the fact that the work was carried out from the homes and therefore there were flexible working hours, the equipment and processes were far less advanced and efficient; due to the cost and size of better equipment, the workers were clearly not all in one place, so moving textiles between sites was inefficient but necessary and finally there was the textile merchant. These were the people who bought and sold the textiles to the workers in various states: they bought cotton and sold it to houses, bought it back as cotton thread, sold it back (often to the same house) and...
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