ABSTRACT
In modern usage there is a clear distinction between craft and industry. Industry implies the mechanical mass production of a limited range of standardized products, often by semi-skilled workmen, whereas a craft involves the individual production of a range of related goods by a skilled worker using relatively few mechanical aids. In the Roman world there was no such distinction and industry in the modern sense scarcely existed, the nearest approach to it being concentrations of workshops, some of which might employ several score of workmen, producing very similar goods; and it is in this rather loose sense that the term is used in this chapter.
