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Jan 1, 1500
Textiles
By 1500 half of England's textiles were being produced in the countryside -
Putting-Out System
By 1700 English industry was more rural than urban, and heavily reliant on the putting-out system -
Poverty in the System
A woman wrote, "The suffering of thousands of wretched individuals, willing to work, but starving from their ill requited labor; of whole families of honest industrious children offering their little hands to the wheel, and asking bread of the helpless mother, unable through this well regulated manufacture to give it to them."