HIST 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cotton Gin, Middle Passage, Antireligion
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Hist 161 - lecture four - worker-made capitalism. Slave migration in south going on at the same time as yankee migration to the west. Improvement the key word for the nineteenth century. Of land (make farms, roads, canals, etc. ) Moral (perfect yourself, better christian citizen etc. ) (through work often) Artisan into worker transformation, more and more wage earners as permanent position surprising transformation since wage earners derided before. Generally artisans status greater in america than in anywhere else after 1790, reach social peak around 1820 then begins to decline with the increase in factories (mostly textile mills at rivers at first) Takes away the class status of artisans. Two paths for masters of crafts, open their own factory with allotment of tasks to previous apprentices/journeymen or simply lose shop since they can"t compete. By 1830s and 40s many masters are working in factories almost none left by 1850s.
