HLTH 5392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Tammany Hall, Know Nothing, Power Politics
6 Dec 2016
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A northern working class emerges in early-1800s but changes drastically w/ an economic depression from 1837 1843. The arrival of new immigrants around 1840 further divides labor along. Very connected and sophisticated transportation network textiles. Almost all women men own farms and hire other men. Traditional small shops produced readily-made and custom- made . New factory division of labor; task-based. Slowly journeymen replaced by women and children. Women get 1/3 of women of men"s pay. Shanty houses, wages irregular, and low seasonal. Company set-up monopolies w/ stores since there"s no food for miles. Get paid in company 14091$, which you can only spend in. White working men seek to protect their interests. Working men must have the ability to achieve economic. By 1840 labor divided by independence. Workers earned / year needed / year for family. Multiple families living in a single vicinity. Joined democratic party tammany hall club political machine . Ward bosses delivered immigrant cotes for city patronage.
