Industrialization In The 19th Century
The 19th century, the beginning of industrialization among the western part of the world, and mainly branching out among North America. With the system on industrialization, man labor is the dominant source to producing and manufacturing, rather than machines like how it is today. In America, being a newly established independent nation, industrialization would turn America into a replica of England, with large factories, where working conditions are terrible, wages are low, rules were strict, and freedom was limited due to race and classification. When someone with greater power and money came into to change things up, lives of lower class, and middle class would be affected without even having their opinion, nor consent. To further into the
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The environment of working in factories were distrusting and repugnant to how many long hours workers were put into, with very little pay. Only reason factory owners were able to set wages so low, because anyone was willing to work for money in the economy they were in. As stated in the lecture from an expression from Jefferson, “the second you open America’s doors to industrialization, is the second America becomes the next England,” meaning same conditions were being transferred over to America (Pettengill 4-12-2012). Though America is supposedly the “free country” it had many boundaries and barriers for others to be able to express their freedom, which is a way Sam Patch comes to play, by jumping off waterfalls to protest against things changing for the greater good of the upper-class rather than the lower, working-class. Sam Patch was as close to an American hero as you could get without going to war. His jumps were, “… a grand and eccentric gesture thrown into contemporary conversations about nature and economic development, class and masculinity, and the proper uses of waterfalls,” (Johnson, 43). In other words, his jumps were a projection of what the working class of Americans were feeling and thinking without actually using violence. When it came to the changes of lunch hours after extraneous hours of labor, the type of job available due to race, or anything that would affect the freedom and equality of America, were excuses and valid reasons to stand up against the ones that don’t have to work on low wages, or just the wealthy in
The environment of working in factories were distrusting and repugnant to how many long hours workers were put into, with very little pay. Only reason factory owners were able to set wages so low, because anyone was willing to work for money in the economy they were in. As stated in the lecture from an expression from Jefferson, “the second you open America’s doors to industrialization, is the second America becomes the next England,” meaning same conditions were being transferred over to America (Pettengill 4-12-2012). Though America is supposedly the “free country” it had many boundaries and barriers for others to be able to express their freedom, which is a way Sam Patch comes to play, by jumping off waterfalls to protest against things changing for the greater good of the upper-class rather than the lower, working-class. Sam Patch was as close to an American hero as you could get without going to war. His jumps were, “… a grand and eccentric gesture thrown into contemporary conversations about nature and economic development, class and masculinity, and the proper uses of waterfalls,” (Johnson, 43). In other words, his jumps were a projection of what the working class of Americans were feeling and thinking without actually using violence. When it came to the changes of lunch hours after extraneous hours of labor, the type of job available due to race, or anything that would affect the freedom and equality of America, were excuses and valid reasons to stand up against the ones that don’t have to work on low wages, or just the wealthy in