19th Century Industry

As America was booming from government policies and new technology, population changes also took effect to contribute to the rise of industry. Population was steadily rising due to immigration, migration, and improved conditions of living. Millions of European and Asian immigrants came to America in search of a more promising and successful life. These immigrants created a growing work force that big industries took advantage of by using the minimally paid workers to help produce more for their companies. Along with westward migration in America, “In the post-civil war period, cities swelled in population as a twin migration of immigrants and rural Americans flocked to the glittering urban environment” (Riis 320). This urbanization solidified the transition of the nation from an agricultural economy to an industrial one. Also in the 19th century, population was at a high compared the past because of improvements in health care, a higher reproduction rate and a better standard of living. These population changes provided America with a large, growing consumer economy that allowed industry and business to thrive.

Department stores, Chain stores, and mail order's houses were how retail sales and distribution techniques of the late nineteenth century made goods and conveniences formerly enjoyed by city dwellers available to Americans in small towns and the countryside. Americans no longer had to make their own clothes but, now they had the leisure of picking and buying clothes from a department store. Due to chain stores buying in preparing food had changed. A new industry of packing and selling foods had been invented. The mass production and new development of tin can had inspired an industry of canned foods. Refrigerated railroad cars and iceboxes made it possible for perishable food items to be kept fresh. These developments brought a healthy improvement

Over the course of the last century, we see ourselves looking and comparing all of the new changes that have occurred. Some of the changes have been more significant than others but have affected us greatly in some form. Many would say life today is a lot easier than it was in the nineteenth century. Everything today is just a click away. Many of the changes that have occurred have been major building blocks that have driven us to make life easier and more enjoyable. Three main components that have significantly changed from the nineteenth century to the twenty first century are agriculture, electronics, and traveling.

The nineteenth century witnessed the rise of the modern industry. As the nineteenth century was a time of great change and upheaval, it was also a period of great opportunity. These advances in science and technology generated much of this change and had widespread effects on society. This emerging modern world was driven by an endless stream of new products made by factories employing radically new technologies, skills, and organizations.

“No place is free of the threat implied in such phrases as economic growth, job creation, natural resources, human capital, bringing in industry, even bringing in culture—as if every place is adequately identified as the environment and its people as readily replaceable parts of a machine. Devotion to any particular place now carries always the implication of heartbreak (Berry, 2007).” During the Civil War, government contracts were issued to factories in order to produce shoes, clothes, weapons, food, and other goods for the troops. Business owners wanted the money being offered by the government and knew how to get it. People were willing to give up life as they knew it in order to work in the factories and stores, despite the conditions

In 19th century America there were many changes in industrialization and capitalism which impacted the working class. One such change was the rise of unskilled labor; before the industrial revolution most people if not employed in agriculture relied on skilled trade. Meaning people had to have training and skill in order to create merchandise of a higher quality. However, with the rise of industrialization large factories began to take over the production of goods. These big businesses also began to turn to unskilled labor due to the fact that it was easier than hiring skilled laborers. Factories employed unskilled laborers because they were cheap and easily replaceable. This allowed factories to significantly grow in size and dominate the market. Such domination of the market forced the majority of smaller business to close their doors due to the fact that the factories could produce a higher quantity of goods for a smaller price. This affected the working class because their options for employment quickly decreased to the extent that their only option was to work for these big businesses. Due to the fact that unskilled laborers were easily disposable, large factories began to take advantage of their employees. Big businesses would take advantage of their workers by forcing them to work in unsanitary, unhealthy, and even dangerous conditions for very little pay. The life of a working class citizen was a difficult one, and the lives of these workers are reflected in the

One component of the shift from agrarian to industrial in American society in the late 19th century was the advent of the railroad industry. Due to Manifest Destiny, Americans believed it was their God-given right to expand west, and the inexpensive development of steel that Henry Bessemer brought a need for an industrial economy in order to build railroad tracks that could span the continent. This is what allowed three companies in the 1860’s, Union Pacific, Central Pacific, and Western Pacific, to build the first ever Transcontinental Railroad that reached from the Missouri River to the San Francisco Bay. This led to more and more people fulfilling the dream of moving west, adding to the already massive demand, and creating the need for more

It seems that automation is the one thing that drastically will cause problems for the future, but also the one thing no one wants to address. Hearing it from business leaders it is obvious that this future is coming quickly and there needs to be drastic changes in how we think about work and what work is. You have an entire generation not wanting to adapt to the future and if they don't they might not make it. Trump seems to be encouraging development (which he should in my option) but offers no help or even a strategy for his base of workers (uneducated white voters) that are going to get hit the worst by this. This is vastly different from industrialization of the Late 1800’s. Jobs like manufacturing that has been around since the dawn of

During the 19th century in England and other areas of Europe and era of industrialization occurred, which led to the construction of numerous factories equipped with new machines. Significant strides in both communication and transportation occurred during this time period. These factories altered the way that products were manufactured. They took assembly out of people’s homes and into a mass production setting. Although products became cheaper and improved the standard of living for some individuals, industrialization did have its detriments. Poor working conditions were rampant in the factory setting and many employees were hurt on the job. Urbanization occurred without cities having the capacity for such a large number of individuals. As a result of this mass migration into cities, unsanitary conditions and diseases erupted. Industrialization during the 19th century in Europe made mass production possible, however, there were several adverse effects to it as well.

Everyday millions of people drive or walk to work in the morning and then return to their home in 8-10 hours or come home every week or two with a good sized paycheck. Usually this luxury is taken for granted, because the money that is earned is always enough to supply our everyday need and the work day is finished before the next night. Working conditions were not always this good. These good working routines gradually came into action growing from the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution brought about many factories and along with the factories came more workers who had few safety regulations to protect them.

“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end” (Sharma). Change is what helps improve the world we live in. During the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the way people live was drastically changing. In the beginning, living conditions in cities were terrible, but as regulations were put into effect and as time passed, these living conditions greatly improved. Life in industrialized cities was an improvement over life in the country as a result of the Industrial Revolution because of improvements in transportation, working conditions, and the creation of job opportunities.

Technology is changing the essence of music , technology came to with the advent of recordings. Thomas Edison invented a crude cylinder phonograph in 1877. By the end of the nineteenth century, companies in the United States and England were manufacturing recordings of music.

Since the agricultural revolution, ninety-nine percent of humanity had worked the fields of agriculture in order to survive. Almost nobody had been able to move away from the fields to cities, and people in the cities had almost never wanted to stop being a craftsman to begin a new life as a farmer. Although the latter point remains true to this day, the former has been dramatically altered. With innovations in agriculture as simple as hardened iron plows and better irrigation, slightly more people could make their homes in cities. With the innovation of steam power and the reaper in the late 18th and early 19th century, many more people had to leave farming as farm production increased to join in the steam powered industry in the cites. With

The economic status of Wales was generally strong during the entirety of the early modern period. Throughout the 16th century, Wales was slowly growing richer. Mining, especially of coal, had become a primary economic occupation of Wales during the 17th century and one of the leading causes of employment. The largest coalfields are in the southeast and today produce about 10 percent of Great Britain's total coal production. Iron, steel, limestone, and slate production are also important industries. Although agriculture was highly practiced and important to the economy, mining was able to support the economy in a different way. During the late 18th and early 19th century coal mining and iron working industries in Wales grew. Other metal industries

With the drastic increase of population, many rural workers were in desperate need of employment, while capitalists from urban settings were looking for workers willing to work for at lower wages, than those set by the urban work laws. As a result of this “relationship”, the rural industry became extremely popular throughout the eighteenth century. This new system became known as the “putting out system”, as the merchant would lend specific materials to rural workers, who would build and return the ultimate product back to the merchant. Although it was popular, it did not spread across Europe at the same time or pace. In addition, the textile industry, the most employed industry, adopted this system as a way to help the management of materials