domestic system

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noun

a manufacturing system whereby workers make products in their own homes with materials supplied by entrepreneurs.

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The entire social and domestic system of American communities calls loudly for the reform of simplicity and congruity.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)|Marion Harland
The children are the great test of this domestic system; they are happy, smiling, trustful, and yet no trouble.
Amiel's Journal|Henri-Frdric Amiel
She is the sun—the centre of a domestic system, and her children are like planets around her, reflecting her rays.
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million|Sarah Josepha Hale
A complete change in the domestic system of the palace was wrought suddenly.
The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete|Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe

The guild system of manufacture was gradually replaced by the domestic system.
The Armies of Labor|Samuel P. Orth