COMPARISON workshop and factory production

1. Comparison on the first industrial
revolution
There are many big differences between the periods before and
after the first industrial revolution but here I’m going to write some of
the most significant ones.
First and something very important for the development of the
industry was the working place; changing from small workshops
where craftsmen, the people involved in the creation of goods, had
to make them by hand with simple tools, using themselves as the
source of energy, to large factories where the factory workers were
in charge of controlling the machines that created the goods using
coal and steam as their main source of energy, this was the most
important technological innovation during industrialization.
Also as craftsmen didn’t have many resources to make goods, they
had to be very skilled so, for this, they had to be trained by a master
craftsman for a long time to perfectionate their skills, while during
industrialization factory workers just had to learn how to control the
machines in a couple of hours.
Craftsmen didn’t have any stages in the manufacturing process
because the same person made the product from start to finish, this
made every product they made different from each other and in a
creative way because as they didn’t have a specific patron they
could do the products as they wished, but during industrialization,
they followed a process called division of labor where every
machine did a single task in an alienating way because every
machine made all products similar.

2. Finally, referring to the productivity and the cost of the products,
craftsmen had low productivity, making a few goods in a long period
of time with high manufacturing cost and more expensive prices
than industries that had high productivity making a lot of products in
a short period of time with low manufacturing costs and lower
prices.
MARTA ESTEVE RAMÍREZ, 4C