What's the difference between the traditional handicraft era and the industrial era?

First, most of them are the products of natural economy, "men plow and women weave, and they are self-sufficient". Handicraft industry is not separated from agriculture, but combined with agriculture, and exists as a family sideline, mainly to meet its own needs;

Second, due to the different ecological environment and living customs, the development direction of handicraft industry is not consistent.

industrial age

The factory system replaced the manual workshop, and the machine replaced the manual work. The yeoman peasant class, which was attached to the backward mode of production and created great productivity (machine production), disappeared.