Read the following excerpt from the p osophy of manufactures written by andrew ure in 1835. what bear describes the storical context of the the principle of the factory system then is, to substitute mechanical science for hand skill, and the partition of a process into its essential constituents, for the division or graduation of labour among artisans. on the handicraft plan, labour more or less skilled was usually the most expensive element of on the automatic plan, skilled labour gets progressively superseded, and will eventually be replaced by mere overlookers of machines it is, in fact, the constant aim and tendency of every improvement in machinery to supersede human labour altogether, or to diminish its cost, by substituting the industry of women and children for that of men, or that of ordinary labourers for trained the effect of substituting the self-acting mule for the common mule, is to discharge the greater part of the men spinners, and to retain adolescents and children. the proprietor of a factory near stockport states, in evidence to the commissioners, that, by such substitution, he would save 501. a week in wages in consequence of dispensing with nearly forty male spinners, at about 25s, of wages o a industrialion led to a manufacturing based economy and business owners were looking to maise their prots ob forworkers had gone one to protest low wage and business owners wanted to explain their practices to gain public poon o c. workers were able to produce higher quality goods than machinery and buses were develop way to mprove technology d. the poor working conditions in factories caused many workers to out and business owners wanted to find new ways to mana produced