Explain the differences between the Rhode Island system and the Lowell system?

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Rhode Island System: Samuel Slater's strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks

Lowell system: based on water-powered textile mills that employed young, unmarried women from local farms; included a loom that could both spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill

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