The Factory System

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The Factory System
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Work Before Factories

• In the home or small shops
• Specialized - workers had to be very skilled
• Many owned small businesses

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Working Class After Factories

• Repetitive actions
• Unskilled
• Low Wages
• work quickly or risk punishment
• No safety regulations
• Rigid schedules

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Working Class

• Whole families had to work
• Children as young as 6 worked up to 15 hour
  shifts
• Many required to live in company housing and shop
  using script at company stores

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Mass Production

• Perfected by car manufacturer Henry Ford
• Products were now mass-produced
• Conveyor belt, one repetitive action
• Parts were Standardized
• Each product was exactly the same
• Fewer skilled workers were needed (less spent
  in wages)

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Mass Production

• Ford invented the idea of using an
• Assembly Line to speed up production.

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Key Quote Henry Ford

• A customer can have any color he likes for
  his car so long as it's black

How would this have helped to cut production
costs?
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Assembly Lines
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Problems with Factories

• Can you think of some problems that workers would
  have with the factory system??? What are they?