The Factory System and the Industrial Revolution With the coming of the Industrial Revolution in the middle of the eighteenth century, manufacturing was changed dramatically by advances in technology and by the development of the factory system Replacing hundreds of cottage workers who had turned out one tom at a time, the factory system brought together in one place the materials and workers required to produce items in large quantities and the new machines needed for mass production The tone of the above passage is objective in its explanation of the changes in manufacturing in the eighteenth century Oh that opposed to the changes in sumutacturing in the tighteenth century pro-Industrial revolution seems to suggest a blas against cottage workers