Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Factory system" in English language version.
[...] in the early years of the factory system, it was as likely to be dubbed a new form of slavery as a new form of freedom. [...] For Robert Southey, the association of slavery with the factory system did not stem from particular abuses but from the nature of the system itself. [...] An 1844 letter in the Manchester Operative [...] likened the mill bell calling workers to their tasks to 'a slave driver's whip' [...]