Talk:Cottage industry

-- not much of an article yet, but this was on the article request list... I'll look up the origins of the term and include something more specific...Morris 19:41, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

no domestic and cottage mean two entirely different things.--Rsrikanth05 13:28, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

no domestic industry is completely diffrent from cottage industry i DO NOT think that they should be merged. It would also make it harder to read and understand if there was a lot more information.

however the information was very useful

I don't think this article should be merged with domestic industry. There is a difference in connotation between the two, although the article doesn't yet convey that well.Mary 22:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Merge discussion
I have looked at the comments in which someone else proposed merges. There are lots of assertions that they are different, but no further detail. Please sign in, agree or disagree, provide detail why, and then sign your comment (4 tildas) Ehusman 03:26, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree that this article should be merged with the putting out system. According to what I have learned, the putting out system is the modern description of the key features of eighteenth-century rural industry. The Cottage Industry was mainly coined to distinguish it from the factory industry that came later. They are both just words to describe the same part in European History and there's really no need to have separate articles for each. However because "putting out system" is widely used by contemporaries to describe it, it should be the title. "Domestic Industry" is also another older phrase for the same thing. Really, all three should be merged into one article to avoid confusion. NcSchu 01:31, 1 December 2006 (UTC)