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Content: Why? The Domestic System of manufacturing goods is the merchant-employer would "put out" materials, to rural producers who usually worked at their homes producing goods. Then, the workers returned the finish products to the employers for a payment. The person who benefited most from the Domestic System was the merchants because they only had to pay lower wage costs to the rural workers and there was an increased efficiency due to a more extensive division of labor. What are the differences between the Domestic System and the Factory System? The differences between the Domestic System and the Factory System is the Factory System replaced the Domestic System because the used hand tools or simple machinery to make goods in their own homes or in workshops attached to their homes, when the Factory System put workers in cities and towns and crammed them into factories. Also, in the Domestic System, the independent craftsmen owned their own tools and designated their own working hours when in the factory system, the employer owned the tools and raw materials and set hours and other conditions under which the workers labored. What are the possible positive and negatives effects of the Factory System? The possible positive effects of the Factory System is this made it easier to produce goods on a larger scale, and this introduced interchangeable parts in the manufacture of muskets and other types of goods. The negative effects of the Factory System is the factory wages decreased, the working conditions were terrible due to it being poorly lit, cluttered, and unsafe place, the workers put in long hours for low pay, and the machines could cause many injuries to the factory workers.