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globalization of factory work  

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  • Factory work has been long considered one of the key characteristics of the modern society and economy in Europe that emerged from the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century. In fact, the factory system, with the gathering in individual workplaces of a mass of workers in order to take advantage of the new possibilities made available by new power sources (e.g., steam) and machines (e.g., power looms), played an important role in eroding the ties between rural workers and their areas of residence, and dismantling traditional work patterns in agriculture, often linked to semi-feudal obligations and accompanied by local support schemes in case of need (e.g., the Speenhamland system in England between the end of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th century). [Source: Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia; Factory Work, Globalization of]

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