-system developed to compete with guilds
-entrepreneurs "put out" the work to rural families, giving the supplies they needed (like looms)
-people would give the entrepreneurs back finished products and would be paid for their services.
-became a gendered division of labor
-women spun wool into thread
-men wove thread into cloth
-Clothers dealers in Rouen developed a cheaper way to spin cloth, the guild banished it to protects its own members, and the entreprenuers put the work on the peasants, bypassing the guild's regulations
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