families working together on their farms as means for survival. A small number of people, mostly men, worked as skilled craftsmen, building goods from scratch and selling them directly from their shops. Later in the 19th century, as the economy grew with great help from the development of railways, so did industrialization. With better ways to reach larger markets, some craftsmen and other entrepreneurs became determined to create manufactories. These artisans attempted to compete with other craftsmen and rid of their apprentices, replacing them with new technology, machinery. The introduction of manufactories meant more wage-earning positions for low or un-skilled laborers, the birth of new "skilled" machinist and the hiring of many women in clerical positions. This new development of labor expansion is known as the 1st Industrial Revolution. Machinery, instead of man, used to produce
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