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People before the eighteenth century married young
People before the eighteenth century had large families
The total population of Europe before the eighteenth century grew rather fast
The Black Death caused a drop in prices and created a labor shortage
Famine
Disease
War
All of the above
Elimination of the Bubonic Plague
Improvements in the water supply and sewerage
Medical knowledge advances
Better efforts to store food and protect against famine
The putting out system
Mercantilism
The Panic of 1714
Economic liberalism
Peasants staged successful revolts for higher wages, causing more peasants to get involved in the putting out system
Production in the countryside was well regulated
Underemployed labor was abundant
Merchants instituted rigid guild standards
Germany
France
The Low Countries
England
Textiles
Sugar
Cotton
Tobacco
It was small and normally had only one room
There was a loom inside the house
There were spinning wheels and tubs for dyeing cloth
All of the above
Mother
Father
Children
Each member helped in the work to make the cottage industry a family enterprise
Cottage workers would finish early, then slack off for a few days
Constant need for thread
Spinsters were difficult to find
Rural labor was hard to control
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