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1. bearstirringfromcave says:
   November 29, 2009 at 12:45 pm

   During what era? What Nation? Taking a wild guess that you might be asking about America during the not SO Civil War the main difference was that there were more industrial towns North of the Mason Dixon lines, the factories were better organized more efficient more open to innovation & change. In the North one found Industrial Towns whereas in the South one found pockets of industry, small ventures, often the work of an eccentric who had little backing from the moneyed rich. The moneyed rich of the North poured their wealth into Industry whereas most Southerners shunned industry preffering horse & carriages to trains, about the only piece of machinery they took to were steam boats. Factories in the South were a lot like Industry in pre World War Two Japan, most of the work was done piecemeal in small factories, often peoples homes & such like buildings, rather than in large factory complexes. Richmond Virginia was an ‘industrial’ hub, in that many of the older buildings in the least desirable sections of town were ‘factories,’ small concerns making limited ammounts of ’stuff’ such as shoes & blankets, and small machine shops making guns & rifles, or rather asssemblingthem from pre made parts, those parts usually imported. There was Southern Industry, do not let the myth of the Agrigcultural South blind you to the truth but the sad truth was that the South was deeply flawed and how the South reacted to the Industrial Revolution revealed those flaws…

   (Oh and as any ’sweat shop’ foreman can tell you, slaves could have adopted to factory work as well as they did to agriculture)….

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