Industrialization Dbq Research Paper

Keya Rhodes
March 10, 2016
American History
Pamela Bobo
Essay Question One In the United States, industrial workers lives were shaped by economic and political forces. Industrialization is the process in which a society or country is transform itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on manufacturing of goods and services. Most of the factories workers and farmers went through a similar problems. As in the late nineteenth century, all work groups started to see changes such as individual workers and farmers jobs transformed as large corporations and financial institutions. The groups felt that they were shut out of the decision that made about the transformation. Also inside the factories they had workers with no working
It is the process of changing from working largely and exclusively by hand. For example, in Lowell, Massachusetts workers refusal to loss of independence at their workplace. But the responding to changes in the regulations at their jobs. Even the owners obtained the benefits of the mechanization and classification of the industrial workplace, many skilled workers saw such improvement as a threat to their freedom. As a matter of fact, Workers didn’t oppose to some of the changes as in technology and that increased productivity and resulted in higher wages. Industrial labors made up larger share of general population, earned more money, and also worked fewer hours. Majority of the workers lives remained extremely difficult and it was also hard for them to provide for their family. Even though they saw improvement in their wages and hours they still did not earn enough. They also were widespread based on job status, race, ethnicity, sex, and region. Women as their turned their homes to workplaces. They were in crowed apartments and still worked such sewing furs into garments, making straw hats, preparing artificial flowers and so on. However they earned earnings from every piecework but their wages were lower than factory. Also they allowed married women with young children to contribute to the family
Union organizing was caused by attitudes that were common among employers. But most of the employers were convinced that their employees shared identical interests and also they were morally and financially entitled to establish policies on their workers behave. Perhaps half of the workers refused to be engaged in the negotiations with the labor union called collective bargaining. And they also rejected all the unions as illegitimate organizations.
Although Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, was not the first national workers’ organization it was founded by Uriah Stephens in 1869. It is the most extensive and successful campaign after the Civil War to unite workers and challenges the power of corporate capitalists. There was no mutuality of interests between capital and labor, the Massachusetts chapter of the Knights said “It was the iron heel of the soulless monopoly, crushing the manhood out of sovereign citizens. Even the essential premise of the Knights was that all workers shared mutual interests that were very different from their