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Putting-out system

Meaning in history, with examples

nounCommon term

In history, putting-out system means: An arrangement in which merchants supply materials to dispersed workers who process them, often at home, for payment.

In Turkish: eve iş verme sistemi, dağınık ev üretimi sistemi

How it is used

Distinguish the organization of work from the wider process of proto-industrialization.

Example sentences

  1. The putting-out system linked village spinners to a merchant's export business.

    Production remains dispersed while coordination follows merchant orders.

  2. Account books record materials distributed through the putting-out system.

    Input records can reveal control without a central factory.

Common collocations

  • the putting-out system
  • merchant putting-out system
  • industrializationThe process by which an economy shifts from mainly farming and handicrafts to large-scale manufacturing in factories using machines.
  • guildAn association of craftsmen or merchants in the same trade that set standards, controlled training and prices, and protected its members, especially in medieval and early modern towns.

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