Hand production: Products that were made with the person's hands.
Glossary
Assembly line: A system for making things in a factory in which the products move past a line of workers. Each of them make or check one part of the process.
Taylorism: A factory management system developed in the late 19th century to increase efficiency by evaluating every step in a manufacturing process and breaking down production into specialized repetitive task
Cottage industry: An industry where the creation of products and services is home-based, rather than factory-based.
Craft people: People that before the Second Industral Revolution made their objects with their own hands.
Urbanization: An increase in a population in cities and towns versus rural areas. Urbanization began during the Industrial Revolution, when workers moved towards manufacturing hubs in cities to obtain jobs in factories as agricultural jobs became less common.
Manufacturing process: The manufacturing process is a series of steps through which raw materials are transformed into a final product.
Fordism: Fordism, named after Henry Ford, is a notion of a modern economic and social system based on an industrialized and standardized form of mass production.
Steam power: Power generated by steam.