HIS271Y1 Lecture : The Making of Modern America, Guest Lecture

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5 Feb 2012
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The making of modern america: industrialization in the gilded age 1870-1914. Focus on historical innovations, and political, social and economic responses. Pre-gilded age economic characteristics: agri based, artisan mode of production, what most of the economy in the north was based on, creating and selling at the local level, workplace control. Shift from agri to industrial factories, and advanced labour systems. Rapid change, 1900 50% of men work in factories. Meat packing and iron and steel production in the mid west. Telephones, typewriters, electric sewing machines (mass production of clothing), refrigeration of food makes transport easy and changes diets, and flush toilets. Harnessing of electricity, and the internal combustion engine propelled the revolution. Tech that powered the piston engines, h ford utilized this for the future automobile. Physical organization of factories also changed to accommodate the lines and machines. Extreme, frederick windslow taylor, fixated on worker efficiency, scientific management of industry.

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