Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Arkwright” in chapter 22, entry watertwist of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
..., women, and children, who took a bunch of work home and returned it when completed, the houses of the cottagers being in clusters around central distributing-depots, or scattered over the country.
Arkwright centralized the busi- ness, and organized it in manufactories where the operations were concertedly performed.
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