A degree in fine arts can prepare students for careers in the visual arts or the performing arts. Programs at colleges, universities, art academies and technical schools often provide an overview of fine arts before requiring students to choose a concentration.
The main characteristic of the factory system is the use of machinery, originally powered by water or steam and later by electricity. Other characteristics of the system mostly derive from the use of machinery or economies of scale, the centralization of factories, and standardization of interchangeable parts.
The factory system was a new way of organizing labor made necessary by the development of machines which were too large to house in a worker's cottage. Furthermore, the efficient use of the new machines required that many of them be installed together where they could all be driven by the.same power source.orking hours were as long as they had been for the farmer, that is, from dawn to dusk, six days per week. Hours were regulated with precision by the factory clock to ensure that a full measure of work was performed.