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A 3 page research paper/essay in which the writer considers how historians have viewed the term "factory" and whether or not industrialization can always be viewed as positive. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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system of cheap labor, i.e., slavery. In general terms, modern societies tend to equate industrialization with "progress" and, therefore, as a goal that is unequivocally positive. However, the question arises
as to whether or not these views are fully accurate. Therefore, this essay considers these two questions. How do our modern day
conceptions of what a factory is or what industrialization is affect our interpretation of historical industrialization? It seems to be axiomatic that people consider the past through the prism of
their own societal biases. As historians are people, this seems to have influenced the traditional stance on how factories in the early nineteenth century have been envisioned and interpreted by
historians. However, historian Jonathan Prude questions the legitimacy of this interpretation of history. Rather than large mechanized factories being the norm, he asserts that factories were comprised of "multitudes of:
manufactories (hosting upwards of 20 or 25 hands); more modest sweatshops and garrets; artisan shops, and the often home-based work sites of outworkers" (Prude, 2006, p. 84).
Referring to the idea that a "factory" is a large building in which unskilled laborers operate machines, Prude argues that the image that the word
"factory" typically conjures in the mind of the modern reader has actually very little to do with what factories, as a whole, were actually like in the early nineteenth century,
as they were "more broadly diverse and significant than historians have come to assume" (Prude, 2006, p. 85). For example, some businesses that might be classified as "sub-factory workplaces," such
as certain small paper mills, were highly mechanized, while other business, such as large armories, relied on large contingents of "highly skilled artisans" (Prude, 2006, p. 87). Considering Prudes
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