HIST 2401 Chapter Notes -Adding Machine, Gilded Age, Scientific Management
29 Aug 2014
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2 the gilded age the birth of reform liberalism . The gilded age was a period the runs roughly from the 1880s to the 1890s. It refers to things that is shiny on the outside but is not on the inside. The key characteristic is the emergence of the dominant form of american economic life is the corporation. By 1900, 300 corporations controlled 40% of all manufacturing. By 1880 for the first time a majority of the labour force worked on non-farming jobs. By 1890, two thirds of americans labours worked for wages rather than owning their own farm, business, or craft. Between 1870 and 1920, 11 million americans moved from farm to city, and 25 million immigrants arrived from overseas, most moving to industrial cities for work. During that same time, the nation"s population grew from 38 million to.
