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Trade in BNA Text Book pages 32 to 34 are below as an audio file. The definitions that you were given in class are also as a separate audio file, called Trade in BNA definitions.

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Listen to, or read "Economic Factors in BNA" and answer the questions in the document linked below ("Effects of Industrialization Questions")



In the 1800s, most products were made in the "Cottage System", but in the late 1800s and 1900s, factories were being introduced ("The Factory System"). Look at the explanation of how a shirt was made below, to compare the two systems:

The Cottage system:
1. Farmers grew and harvested flax, which was sent to individual families' homes. 2. children separated the fibres from the rest of the plant. 3. women used spinning wheels to spin fibres into thread 4. men wove the thread into linen cloth 5. cloth was sent to another family cottage 6. children dyed the cloth 7. adults cut and sewed the cloth to make a shirt 8. the shirt was sent to a shop to be sold.

The Factory system:
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">1. Cotton fibre was imported from the US to a factory in the city <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">2. Machines spun, wove, dyed, cut and sewed the cloth to produce a shirt <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">3. Unskilled workers fed materials into machines, removed finished products and cleaned the machines. Skilled workers maintained the machines <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">4. The shirt was sent to a shop to be sold.