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Putting-out system

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

A labor organization system in which merchants or workshop owners distributed raw materials to workers in homes or small workshops who produced goods for market sale, expanding cottage industry production.

AP course connection

Topic 3.3: 3.3 Continuities and Changes to Economic Practice and Development from 1648-1815

Unit 3

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