HISTORY 100AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Class Consciousness, Piece Work, Spinning Jenny
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From artisans to entrepreneurs and employees and found labor. Living with their employer, they would find room and board . They would be bound to payment based upon what they found. Class division becomes stricter albeit closely tied. When employers put out work into other peoples" homes, and workers would get paid on a piece rate basis. 1800- masters who are turning into manufacturing entrepreneurs establish the. 1825-35 - ready-made rather than bespoke clothing captures the new york market. 1829 - class consciousness develops; working men"s party, refused to work for more than ten hours. 1850 - largest and most bloody strike in antebellum history. Middle class began to resent the idea of depending upon mutual obligations to survive, contrary to their republic , self-sufficient ideology. Cultural changes encompass the city/working lifestyle that captures the u. s. economy, i. e. the word family and boss have new meanings. Sons often choose to replicate their father"s profession and lifestyle.
