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The Putting out System (1690) – The putting out system, which first appeared in the early 1600’s, was England’s main form of industry before 1700. It reached its peak in the 1690’s. The cottage System, also known as the domestic system, was mainly for the rural families which did not move to cities and participate in urbanization. Instead, they self managed their own manufacturing, by obtaining materials from merchant capitalists in the city. Then, they would produce whatever they needed to with these raw materials, mostly textiles, and sent them back to the city to be sold. This system was unregulated however, and the merchants were often mad because their workers would lounge around all week, and not produce to their full potential, so obviously it did not have the rigidity and structure of the guilds McKay, John P. __History of Western Society 7th Edition__. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.