Industrialization in 19th and 20th Century

Imagine having to wait a long period of time for a letter from your beloved because they had to send it through horse. Or even better, imagine having to wait for wheat or meat restock in your city due to the distance the store purchased it from. America industrial growth couldn’t have occurred without the industrial giants of the period. The industrial giants gave the states more opportunity to create and move quicker to provide the nation.

Industrialization began in the 1790’s and continued all the way through the the early 1900’s. While industrialization was evolving, so was the ideology that came with factories. Industrialization began during the Revolutionary Era when Samuel Slater created the cotton mill and these innovations continued all the way through the Gilded Age along with the creation of labor unions. Industrialization had the reputation of opportunity, which is why so many people came to the US and caused industrialization to evolve so quickly. As people came to the cities and to the United States of America, the industrialization progressively created dirt and filth within the cities. As industrialization spread through America it brought

Majority of the immigrants that migrated to the large cities, worked in factories. Women, farmers, and immigrants were among groups that would take lower wages for jobs, that the Americans were receiving higher paid wages for, but still receiving discrimination. The Chinese were being taxed to mine for gold, this is how the Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed (Schultz, 2010). The Act solely prevented the Chinese from migrating for at least ten years, and those who were already in here, would not be permitted to become citizens.

While industrialization grew in the 19th century, many people came to the United States to the cities for jobs in the new industries where jobs were readily available. industrialization led to the complete separation of home and workplace. Where, most people had worked in or near their own homes, and businesses were often family affairs, with wives and children being involved. It also meant that people's home lives were separate from their working lives in a way that they had not been before.

In the 1760s, the United States began its first major period of rapid industrialization. Everyday there was a new factory built, a new machine created, a new industry expanded. The effect of industrialization was so massive that even songs were written about this period. One song depicted a man who could “hatch eggs by thousands; all by steam”.[1] With more factories and more efficient means of production, more commodities became available to the public for consumption. The first era of the industrial revolution drastically changed the way America functions as a consumer society. The second period of industrialization altered how America functions as a capitalistic society. After the Civil War, the next era of industrialization began in

The industrial revolution of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century served as the impetus to the creation of new technologies that helped interconnect various parts of the world. In essence, technology was crucial to the development of a globalized economy. With the development of a global economy companies began to expand beyond national borders and cater to citizens around the world by becoming multinational corporations. These now global companies have not only expanded their markets, but also rely on labor and raw materials from all around the world. For example, PepsiCo Inc. employs a global workforce to drive their business, Apple Inc. acquires their component supplies from companies spanning the globe, and The Boeing Company uses a global distribution system in order to market their products to airlines in various regions of the world.

The age of technology and science has no doubt made it possible for the current societies of the world to be as advanced as they are; however, at what cost has this advancement resulted in for the world to become as industrialized as it is? Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the fields of technology and science bloomed; technology during this time, contributed to the industrialization era, the social life of society became enveloped around the newest technological gadgets and scientific philosophy, and overall the citizens’ of the United States living standards and mindset have forever changed.

Industrialization began in 1877 and ended in 1900 the United States (U.S.). To have Industrialization, you must have these four things: natural resources, transportation, urbanization, and technology. During this era, jobs became a necessity for citizens in the United States, industries began to boom as well as new homes for people, but that also caused problems. Transportation was developed and it made life easier for transporting people and goods from place to place. Many inventions helped the United States with many things. For example, the telegraph helped send messages and the light bulb helped people see in the dark. Also, many Americans were losing their jobs because of immigration. Children during this time period had it just as rough as the adults, maybe even more than them. The Industrial Revolution led to the growth of cities, industries, new inventions, and major points that created transportation and housing for citizens because of new jobs and productions.

During the nineteenth century and the period of the industrial revolution, countries were divided into three categories based on how they dealt with industrialization. The “joiners,” the “in-betweeners,” and the “outsiders” all went through the same process of an internal debate and crisis but with different results. The Joiners included countries whose leaders decided to industrialize, and were successful while also becoming imperialistic.

We live in a world full of products. Your shirt, pencil, and blankets are all examples of products we purchase. Do you ever wonder who is the creator of these essential items? In the beginning of the Industrial Revolution around the 18th and 19th century, often the creators of these products have been young children or poor desperate workers. The workers and children were hungry, underpaid and worked lengthy brutal hours. Poor workers would live in the slums with around ten family members in one small room. People suffered for the things we enjoy today. If we lack clothing we simply go buy it, every child nowadays has the rights to education. This was not the case in the 18th century. Throughout history children have been used as slaves, during

The first Industrial Revolution was born in United States and Europe between the 18th and 19th century. During this time societies moved from an agrarian society to manufacturing society. The Industrial Revolution brought many great new technology such as textile machines, windmills, and the use of stem power in boats. This revolution marked a time in history in which mass production of goods was produced through specialized machinery as well as in factories. The mass production of goods also allowed for a better standard of living in many undeveloped nation. This did not only apply to the United States and Europe, the industrial revolution became a global phenomenon. Across the world as technology advanced, the number of machinery and

Since the emergence of man, the human race has gone through many changes throughout the time and history. One of the greatest and most crucial changes for today’s modern society was the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution brought many changes to the societies that experienced the process of industrialization. Some of the changes benefited society, while others caused harm to most of the society. Most affected by these changes was the working class of these societies. The Industrial Revolution that took place throughout the 18th and the 19th centuries had major effects which influenced every aspect of society and life such as, urbanization, imperialism and nationalism. The main problems of the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe by the 1840s were Pollution, unsafe, dirty, long working hours, never any breaks. Machinery very unsafe. Life threatening injuries. Cheaper to have children work and they were easier to control. The ideals liberalism of better addressed the problems of the Industrial revolution then those of the socialism.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries Europe found itself dealing with vast changes in its way of life. The Industrial Revolution took Europeans from the rural countryside into the urban powerhouses as the continent experienced a sudden shift in everyday living, economic structure, and social hierarchy. This sudden change in how Europe was ran from an economic standpoint caused yet another rift between the proletariats and bourgeoisies. Life became difficult for the newly founded working class of Europe as shown in Friedrich Engels’ The Condition of the Working Class in England, which analytically discusses the horrendous living accommodations in the factory towns. At the same time, however, the quality of life for the bourgeoisie improved during the period of industrialization. For them it was a time of new excitements and adventures to be had, two articles from The Economist, written in London show the Industrial Revolution as a time to explore the new possibilities of life in the mid 1800’s. The Industrial Revolution directly changed Europe from a social standpoint, but lacked a strong political front. Overall, this caused the government to lead with practices now out-of-date with changing Europe, this led to the lower classes having only minimal support in this new and harsh environment.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth century there was the Industrial Revolution which resulted in society basing their work and life more on factories and production instead of on agriculture . Alongside industrialisation came capitalism which had the aim of creating profit; urbanism which consisted of mass amounts of people moving from rural to urban areas; and liberal democracy which emphasised the citizenship rights of each person and how they could make decisions on how to change their country rather than having to follow the rule of a monarch which loosely ties in with micro theories. Lee and Newby (1983) noted that “there was widespread agreement among observers and commentators at this time that Northern Europe and North America were passing through the most profound transformation of society in the history of mankind” in the early nineteenth century . Along with these developments which affected the way people worked was the Enlightenment which was a time period in which people chose scientific and objective ways of understanding the world rather than blind faith in religion and superstition .Through this new grasp and use of reason and rationality, sociology was clearly bound to develop in some way as people were becoming more educated and their minds were being opened to vast new possibilities of what they could achieve.

Industrialization had many different impacts in American history. One of the impacts that industrialization had was increasing wealth in the U.S. Many business managers, and investors/entrepunuer took financial risks of starting factories and they earned many rewards. By factory’s, the overall amount of goods and services started increasing, because of the fact that factory’s can produce goods much faster than a human. However men were still needed to operate the machines, and there were job opportunities. This led to the increase of population in the United States. Many immigrants traveled to the u.s to escape the harsh life’s they have been living, they thought these job opprutinitys were a way to start a new life, a new beginning, this is why industrialization also increased population in the U.S. American ingenuity and also was on the rise and people thought of many new inventions to make life easier. There was also an abundance of resources so they did not need to worry about resources for their inventions.