Over the 19th century, a shift occurred to rural female labour with guild organized urban - based male labour less important. The global markets for Ottoman goods fell somewhat with certain sectors expanding. However, any changes were compensated by an increase in domestic consumption and demand. Mechanized production even at its peak remained an insignificant portion of total output. The lack of capital, as in other areas of the economy, deterred the mechanization of production. Nonetheless, a number of factories did emerge in Istanbul, Ottoman Europe and Anatolia. In the 1830s steam powered silk reeling factories emerged in Salonica, Edirne, West Anatolia and the Lebanon.
the most noticeable change in the manufacturing sector of the ottoman empire in the 19th century was
a shift occurred to rural female labour with guild organized urban - based male labour less important