Talk:Putting-out system

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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 03:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 11:33, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

esta es una historia muy interesante deberian de escribir mas sobre ello porque asi aprendemos mas —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.250.190.123 (talk) 14:32, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

A cottage industry is an industry
Wikipedians must get over this mind-numbing practice of defining a word or term by referring to itself. Nickrz (talk) 17:41, 9 March 2011 (UTC) An industry certainly does not include bloggers talking about a specific manufacturer.Splodgeness (talk) 10:12, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Not enough information
It doesn't tell the reader why the domestic system ended — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.24.238.214 (talk) 12:26, 22 December 2013 (UTC) Maybe because it hasn't!! I worked for 30 years producing control systems from my house, and this is not unusual. Splodgeness (talk) 10:13, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Dr. Nakabayashi's comment on this article
Dr. Nakabayashi has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"The article is not inaccurate, but fails to show that putting-out was widely seen beyond the Western world, particular in weaving. For instance, putting-out was a typical work organization of hand weaving in Japan from the early modern times to the 1900s, until factories equipped with power looms became predominant."

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

Dr. Nakabayashi has published scholarly research which seems to be relevant to this Wikipedia article:


 * Reference : NAKABAYASHI, Masaki, 2013. "Honesty, Diligence, and Skill: Risk Sharing and Specialization in the Kiryu Silk Weaving Cluster, Japan," ISS Discussion Paper Series (series F) f166, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo, revised 03 Jun 2014.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 12:59, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Contemporary World - Difference to Freelancing??
I added link to freelancing and subcontracting, but i am genuinely not very clear on what the difference is, if there is one. Is this just an old term? I mean reading
 * The merchant would "put-out" basic materials to the cottage workers, who then prepared the materials in their own homes and returned the finished merchandise back to the merchant.

i know several people who are freelancing, who work exactly like that. I know other people who work exactly like that, but they are not even freelancing, they are fixed employees. this article would benefit from someone knowledgeable in the historical subject giving some context as to where our current gig economy // freelance // work-at-home // etc world differs from this. was there a swing away from this during the IR and we are now swinging back? thank you.--91.64.37.246 (talk) 22:47, 30 August 2021 (UTC)