HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Frederick Winslow Taylor, Master Craftsman, Gilded Age
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The making of modern america: industrialization in the gilded age, 1870-1914. Semester 2, lecture 2: wednesday january 18th, 2012. Individual plots of land harvesting potatoes, tobacco, etc. Artisan (task-oriented) mode of production: master craftsman, journeyman, etc, masters would teach the trade to their apprentices, production was on a commissioned basis. Creating and selling at the local level. It variously refers to the general shift from agriculture to manufacturing, the rapid and widespread adoption of mechanical means of production, the spread of the wage labour system, and the coming of large factories. (walter licht) Across the northern half of the us, industrialization was occurring at a rapid pace in the first half of the 20th century: lumber/paper products, petroleum, meat-packing. By the turn of the 20th century, american was the most productive industrial nation. Inventions played a huge part in this: telephones, typewriters, cash registers, electric sewing machines, refrigerators, flush toilets.
