<P> 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 . </P>
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