HIS271Y1 Lecture : 14a - Making of Modern Am.doc

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Industrialization in the gilded age (the machine age), 1870-1914 (jan 18) Industrialization: what"s propelling this industrial revolution forward, the harnessing of electricity, the internal combustion engine, key developments, factory mode of production, assembly lines, mechanization. Pre-gilded age economy: agriculturally-based, artisan (task-oriented) mode of production, master craftsmen and apprentices, creating and selling at the local level low volume of production and trade. Company: horizontal integration: one company buying out its rivals and competition to dominate the market (rockefeller, responses to industrialization, the labour question , working conditions, wages, hours, compensation, deskilling. Industrial workers of the world (iww/wobblies, one big union, joe hill) International ladies garment workers union (ilgwu: politics legislative changes and introduction of labor day. 1: socialism (eugene debs and the socialist party of america) 1880s; opportunities available to immigrants due to the gilded age. Change in pattern; used to come from north western coast; numbers now dwarfed from. There is a switch in the ethnic.

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