The Industrial Revolution Of Maryland By Lewis W. Hine And Maggie : A Girl Of The Streets

In the late 1800s and the early 1900s, labor was anything but easy. Factory workers faced long hours, low pay, high unemployment fears, and poor working conditions during this time. Life today is much easier in comparison to the late 1800s. Americans have shorter days, bigger pay and easier working conditions. Not comparable to how life is today, many riots sparked, and citizens began to fight for equal treatment. Along with other important events, the Haymarket Riot, the Pullman Strike, and the Homestead strike all play a vital role in illustrating labor’s struggle to gain fair and equitable treatment during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Crises, such as the great railroad strike of 1877, Homestead strike of 1892, Pullman strike of 1894, and the depression of 1893-1894, were results from the rise of industrial capitalism. By 1900, America produced one-third of the world’s goods. Due to this, cities became polluted and overcrowded, and became breeding grounds for diseases like typhoid and cholera. The working situations were not much better, with unskilled industrial laboring class, child labor, low wages, locked fire doors, and allowance of toxic fumes in the factories; many people were disgusted by the way America’s economy grew, while its people were left in poor health.

Labor's Love Lost by Andrew Cherlin details the economic and social conditions of the working class in America and their effect on families from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Cherlin separates this time span into several periods: pre-1900s, early 1900s to 1945, 1945 to 1975, 1975 to 2010, and present day. Cherlin uses these periods as a base for his book, describing the progression from the rise of Industrialization to the economic boom provided by escaping the world wars nearly unscathed to the emergence of the hourglass economy as companies could outsource their manufacturing and the how this progression has impacted the American working class. He then uses these periods as a framework to describe the impact these changes

Following the Civil War, a second industrial revolution in America brought many changes to the nation’s agriculture sector. The new technologies that were created transformed how farmers worked and the way in which the sector functioned. Agriculture expanded and became more industrial. Meanwhile government policies, or lack of them for a while, and hard economic conditions put difficult strains on farmers and their occupation. These changes in technology, economic conditions, and government policy from 1865 to 1900 transformed and improved agriculture while leaving farmers in hardship.

Accurately established by many historians, the capitalists who shaped post-Civil War industrial America were regarded as corrupt “robber barons”. In a society in which there was a severe imbalance in the dynamics of the economy, these selfish individuals viewed this as an opportunity to advance in their financial status. Thus, they acquired fortunes for themselves while purposely overseeing the struggles of the people around them. Presented in Document A, “as liveried carriage appear; so do barefooted children”, proved to be a true description of life during the 19th century. In hopes of rebuilding America, the capitalists’ hunger for wealth only widened the gap between the rich and poor.

The industrial revolution introduced many new technology and improved our economic system. There have been a large increase in manufacture and machine tools since then. This led to better transportation, steam powered factories, consumer goods, a large workforce, and labour conditions. During the 1870’s , many financial issues had arise in the United States of America and in many European countries. Due to the financial crises that arise , it led to a major depressing era in history that is called the Panic of 1873. In “Standing at Armageddon” written by Nell Irvin Painter, the author discusses the progressive era and the United States economic crisis , as well as, social status during the ninetheeth century. Painter explains on how the high class white people owned most of the United States industry and due to their wealth, they owned fifty-one percent of the properties in America. They were the wealthiest one percent of the United States. There were different layers of wealth and social status which also integrates with race and ethnicity. Those who were wealthy in America weren’t the ones working hard and getting their hands dirty. Many low class were immigrants, women and blacks who worked in factories and were receiving low wages and poor work conditions. The low class owned only 1.2 percent of the properties in America. This caused major issues in the united states because the workers formed

For many Americans, the late nineteenth century was a time of big business, marked by economic and social evolution. In the period between the 1880 and 1920, the American economy was growing at a rapid pace. Many European immigrants without industrial skills flooded into American factories and steel mills. These new comer's came in search of better economic opportunity, which paved the way for Heavy, low paying labor that became the job description of the era for many immigrants. One such story of immigrants of the time is Thomas Bell's Out of this Furnace. This not only a story of three generations of Slovaks and the challenges they faced but also about the Americanization and evolving of

At the same time, as we learned in class, America’s population grew because of labor mobility. People began to migrate from rural to urban areas, and from Europe to North America, in search of better economic opportunities, and to improve their lives. The job market became more and more competitive Hubert Gutman’s “Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America 1815-1919” sheds light on the struggle of farmers and tradesmen who were forced into unskilled labor positions during the industrial revolution and the many new immigrants that were finding their way to America Gutman states, “A factory worker in New

For six, long years, many man slaved away on the railroad tracks, shaping America into what it is today. In these six years, man and women faced sickness, injuries, and low wages. In two different documents, these obstacles are expressed, one through knowledge, and one through personal experience. They talk about hardships, and the danger, but there are also many contrasting ideas in both articles.

The Northern part of the United States became industrial in the 1800s. Textile mills and factories started popping up in places such as New England, New York City, and Detroit. These cities became a great place for immigrants to settle, with all the opportunities for factory work. The quantity of immigrants increased, leading to anti-immigration groups.

In the late nineteenth century, America was a country in its prime of industrialization and immigration influx. Known as the Gilded Age, this period defined the United States as the bustling powerhouse it is today, but at the cost of many social and political injustices that lay underneath the guise of the “American dream”. Among the urbanization and booming industry, there was national and racial discrimination, gender inequality, child exploitation and labor,

In the novella, Life in the Iron Mills, by Rebecca Harding Davis an extraordinary compelling portrait is depicted of the 1830’s powerless and tired labor class. To further describe her subject, Davis uses body markers such as: race, gender, and class identification and limited language through her characters in order to shed light on the oppressive chains of industrial capitalism. Influenced by the events going on around her during the American Civil War (1861-1865), Davis focuses and addresses her short literary realism story towards the middle and upper class entrepreneurs who were polluting the Industrial Revolution. As new mills and factories were being established to only on produce profits, at the expense of lower class workers. Who, mostly consisted of, unskilled peasants, immigrants, laborers, and farmers.

Throughout Cultural Perspectives, many influential texts have been read, analyzed, and discussed. One text, Life in the Iron Mills by Rebecca Harding Davis, integrates the thoughts of quite a few authors that have been discussed this semester. Through employing a Marxist view of history—there are always the “haves” and the “have-nots”—one can see that Life in the Iron Mills exemplifies the struggles that face many “have-not” citizens throughout history. One can then see the clear connections to various authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, W.E.B. DuBois, Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels, and Adam Smith.

In urban regions all across the world, impoverished and homeless individuals occupy city streets and alleyways, subsisting through harsh times with little clothing, food, and other sustenance. Nowadays, an impoverished lifestyle is much easier to handle than it was years ago. Free public education, health care, and social services available to all Canadians aid in the fight against poverty, and help poverty-stricken individuals cope with their situation. However, during the time of the Industrial Revolution, services such as these did not exist in society. Indigent individuals were forced to provide for themselves in their battle against starvation, disease, and hypothermia. In the novel Smith by Leon Garfield, Smith, a 12 year old destitute orphan, goes to great lengths for the betterment of his life and the lives of those he cares about.

New development in science caused workers to “have nothing to sell but their labors", and as science made better machines, the need to skillful and experienced workers decreased, which worsened the situation for workers and their job security, which they used to enjoy when they were farmers. On the other hand, new theories of both capitalism and socialism had nothing to say about improving working condition. Indeed, some of very ridicules ideas such as fourierists ideas of giving job to people based on their personality could not help workers at all. Therefore, farming although had many disciplines and conditions similar to industrial working, it never made people to live like a worthless animal by making those rules unrealistic and unnecessary. In one sentence, “ the workers were still part of the poor “third state” but with a difference: they owned nothing even their