![]() Factory owners became wealthy and that resulted in the rise of a new socio-economic order that we recognize today. They hired primarily children and young women because they could be paid less than older men. ![]() In the early 1800s, men such as Samuel Slater and Francis Cabot Lowell created spaces where workers would perform piecework under direct supervision. Some households worked for artisans producing parts of the whole and households were paid by each piece they produced not by the hours they worked. Even artisans worked when demand necessitated work, not in accordance with a clock. Remember, these reform movements took a back seat to volunteerism during the War.Ĭan the Republic Survive Industrialization?Īgriculture was slow, seasonal, and task-oriented. Most of these reform movements were limited (or wildly popular) in the North and these reform movements affected women much more in the North than southern women. Massive reform movements swept the country -some having a lasting effect, while most were just temporary in consequence. of course, the big question about reform is how much of this stuff is about change for the betterment of society and how much of this stuff is about controlling society -a society that is increasingly made up of immigrants? The War of 1812 certainly was a factor so too was the end of the Agrarian Republic and the double shot to the gut with the deaths of Jefferson and Adams in 1826. Or, Americans sought to always better themselves and their society. Or, Americans were not happy or content with what they had unleashed and so Americans sought to further define what it meant to be an American. In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States was not unlike a teenager struggling to develop its own self-identity. Jim Ross-Nazzal, PhD and Students Nathaniel Currier, “The Drunkard’s Progress.” 1846
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