AMH 2020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Second Industrial Revolution, Atlantic Ocean
24 Jun 2016
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American industries and farms dominated global markets in textiles, steel, and oil, wheat and cotton, timber and meat packing. Women entered the work place in growing numbers, mostly as clerks, typists, and secretaries, teachers, nurses. Workers in coal mines, railroads, and steel mills, joined unions for higher wages and safer working conditions. Eventually reformers would force the government restrain the excesses of the nation"s largest businesses to preserve social stability. America"s vast resources such as land, rivers, forests, oil, coal, water, and iron ore. Immigrants provided national market consumers, millions of low wage paid workers for big industries, between 1865 and 1900. Inventors, research laboratories, and business owners developed labor saving machinery and mass production; advances in efficiency and productivity. From the creation of modern transportation and communication systems that gave famers and factory owners access to national and international markets: steamboats, railroads, and telegraph cable under the atlantic ocean.
