The Industrial Revolution Of The Nineteenth 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.

There are many causes and effects of America’s Industrialization, some of the main reasons include: migration to cities, improved transportation, and laissez-faire philosophy, while the primary effects generated by these causes include; consumerism, expansion of the market, and changed working conditions.

America was a time of rapid growth for people all across the country. The Industrial Revolution began a few years after the Civil War with the invention of steam powered machines. From there, America faced a time of massive expansion and modern industrialized cities popped up across the United States. While there was much success across the nation, such as manual labor becoming easier and a huge population growth, the negative effects of industrialization outweigh the positives. A few of the issues that made industrialization an atrocious time for many was the racism and segregation towards immigrants and unsafe and unfair working conditions/the deprivation of a regular childhood for kids across the nation.

Industrialization changed the way of living for Americans. Before industrialization, there were not many consumer goods and those goods that were there was very expensive for the under privileged families. American household had maybe a few sets of clothing for each family member. After industrialization, things changed. Goods were produced in large quantities and became more reasonable for purchase. What does this mean? American households were now able to buy material goods at an affordable price (Backer, 1948-1984)

Industrialization occurred between the late 1800s and early 1900s. During this time period, America was tremendously changing. This was the age of machines and electricity being formed and developed. The first automobile, light bulb, and steam engine were all invented. However, what people might consider these as all positive, industrialization had an overall negative impact on American society. For example, working conditions for workers were beyond dreadful, while their tenements they lived in after a 16 hour work day were atrocious, and then having immigrants come in and trying to steal jobs was just unimaginable.

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

In the 1800's through the 1900's machines and manufacturing in factories became big. So big in fact 65% of the population were farmers, then it shrunk to 25%. This was called industrialization.

During the 1800s people around the globe began experiencing a different lifestyle and workforce. Before this time, people worked on farms in small villages without any form electricity to be able to provide for their families. All of this began to change when an agricultural revolution, lead by the Dutch, arose. From that point on invention after invention and discovery after discovery was brought into the evolving world. It was a rapid change that really never stopped. To this day, scientists build off the ideas that first commenced in the 19th century.

Industrial change has exponentially increased over the past 300 years. However, the makings of industrial societies do not come without a substantial amount of social change. Revolutions of industry were prevalent in several countries between the 1700s to early 1900s including Britain, France, Russia, Japan and the United States of America. Spanning from Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin, to Henry Ford’s Model T automobile, inventions involving industry have attributed to several aspects of social change. As a part of its worldwide impact, each Industrial Revolution led to an uncanning amount of social change that has attributed to modern society including workforce conditions, home life, family structure, education, social divisions and other socioeconomic

The industrialization of America in her postbellum period led to a booming economy. During this time, there was an explosive growth in the manufacturing industry and millions of immigrants came to the New World in search for work and fortune. As the workforce almost tripled, the wealth gap grew bigger as the country developed a new, cheap industrial workforce from the previous agrarian economy. In this day, the only power held by the laborers lied in the unions they were apart of. It was in these unions that workers could bargain their working conditions, hours, and wages. Disputes led altercations and many violent strikes in this era.

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.

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the United States experienced an urban revolution unparalleled in world history up to that point in time. As factories, mines, and mills sprouted out across the map, cities grew up around them. The late nineteenth century, declared an economist in 1889, was “not only the age of cities, but the age of great cities.” Between 1860 and 1910, the urban population grew from 6 million to 44 million. The United States was rapidly losing its rural roots. By 1920, more than half of the population lived in urban areas. The rise of big cities during the nineteenth century created a distinctive urban culture. People from different

America has been expanding and growing since its birth out of Great Britain. The Industrial Revolution has been an influence in the American life since it first in the 1700s. “Most families did not have enough to sell at the market- they had just enough for their own needs.” Up until the factories started booming and employment rates skyrocketed, people really couldn’t become wealthy and live a decent life. As the ways of farming grew the English at the time began to use up more and more land efficiently. “Unusable swamplands could be drained and used for crops.” That’s absolutely amazing that in this era they could turn swamps into areas to raise more crops so they can naturally make more money at the markets and become a bit wealthier. Farming is one of the most important lively hoods of mankind; no matter what argument anyone tries to make. If we didn’t have farming and agricultural production we wouldn’t have all the different sorts of food products we do, nor would they be as abundant. Life would be like it was before the Industrial Revolution came about and most of us would still be growing our own food and barely scraping by in life. With all this agricultural expansion of the time population in England start expanding drastically as well. Thanks to population growth people started to worry more about new inventions and producing stuff for us to make our day to day lives easier than we could have ever before. With all the technological advancements leading up to

According to C. Wright Mills, what occurs in any one individual's life is interrelated with society as a whole. The sociological imagination gives us the ability to understand the correlation of one's biography, history, and traditions along with the knowledge of the social and historical impact and/or influence society may have on that person or group of people. Mills' notion compels us to investigate into an individual's biography and lifestyles, and place their findings within the surrounding circumstances in which events occur in order to perceive the whole picture of the society in which the individual lives.

Imagine living in the era where we had to make our own goods by hand and grow our own source of food with or without a job in the United States. Between the 1600’s throughout 1900 the United States went through the industrial era, which is when business and labor was booming causing for America to grow rapidly. During the Civil War the Union armies needed supplies such as boots, uniforms, weapons, and transportation while in the South their economy diminished. Therefore, with the Union’s high demand for products, manufacturing companies were increasing, but it wasn’t until after the Civil War when the United States industrialization skyrocketed. Due to the industrial era it allowed people to leave villages and farms to work in factories, mills, mines and railroads then eventually allowing women to leave their homes and work in offices as clerks, typists, secretaries, teachers, nurses, seamstresses and some very few in railroads as well. More so, this opened new opportunities for immigrants to travel to the United States to look for work. At first, majority of the immigrants were Irish or German’s until more immigrants began to come from other countries in Europe and Asia. A significant factor that helped revolutionize the industrial era was America’s drive for being innovated, creating inventions and making discoveries, without any of this many jobs wouldn’t have existed. In the 1790’s the U.S Patent Office only had 276 inventions registered then an increase occurred in the