“In the pre-industrial era, the family was a unit of production; parents and children worked together in the fields or in home-based workshops. With the rise of the power loom and the steam engine, however, the family was broken up. Workers were gathered into large factories, and the home became a place of consumption rather than production.”
—Adapted from a historical study of British industrialization
Based on the passage, which of the following was a major social change caused by the rise of the factory system?
- AThe growth of mercantilist laws that legally mandated families to work in their homes.
- The separation of work life from home life as production moved to factories.Cevap
- CThe rapid transition of working-class families to white-collar office jobs powered by electricity.
- DThe widespread reliance on foreign indentured servants to run urban manufacturing machinery.
Cevap
The separation of work life from home life as production moved to factories.
The correct answer is correct because industrialization shifted production from the domestic sphere (cottage industry) to centralized factories. This transition separated the home, which became a site of domestic life and consumption, from the workplace, where goods were produced.
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The impact of industrialization on family structures and the separation of home and workplace.