Imperialism and Industrialism in America
Industrialization affected America in so many different ways that we're still is expanding and learning on our industrializing past. It affected the way Americans move and get from place to place [transportation inventions]. It also affected the way Americans lived/live their lives [standard of living boost].
Source 1 - Henry George: He believed that labor saving inventions would reduce the toil of the workers and allow for better working conditions. He believed that we should take the opportunity to bask in all of these new inventions and allow ourselves to work only as hard as we need to, to complete a job, no harder. All of that could be helped with the inventions of the Nineteenth Century.
Source 2 - David A. Wells: He was one of the first men to notice that machines were taking the jobs of workers. He spoke of the fact that people who work in factories are generally taught one task and after that one task is no longer needed, they are, "in measure helpless." He believed that this should be changed.
Source 3 - Andrew Carnegie: Carnegie believed that the transportation system that has been brought up in the US is making many people less isolated. It is almost always good for all. Many machines that are being created "today" are helping the toilers become less and less hard working and allowing them to increase their productivity in most cases. He believed that because of transportation, people who lived in small, rural towns were no longer dependent on that one town.
Treatment of the Workers: Many of the people who lived in the city (, and obviously the workers) believed that everyone in factories worked much too hard. Not very many people admitted it though, because, despite the ideas and feelings of what the people had, the big businesses ran the town. The big businesses believed that if you could save a few bucks to make something less safe, then you were a few bucks richer. They did not care for the people that worked for them and it didn't matter what the working conditions were. Even though this is still relevant in some countries today (as well as parts of the US) it has died down a lot with the FDA regulations and the Unions that have been created since the 1900's. I believe that the people who worked in the factories in the 19th century were very poorly treated and very under paid for the work that they were doing. They should have been treated with dignity, respect, and higher pay since the work they were doing was the real reason behind why all the cities in the US ran.
Source 1 - Henry George: He believed that labor saving inventions would reduce the toil of the workers and allow for better working conditions. He believed that we should take the opportunity to bask in all of these new inventions and allow ourselves to work only as hard as we need to, to complete a job, no harder. All of that could be helped with the inventions of the Nineteenth Century.
Source 2 - David A. Wells: He was one of the first men to notice that machines were taking the jobs of workers. He spoke of the fact that people who work in factories are generally taught one task and after that one task is no longer needed, they are, "in measure helpless." He believed that this should be changed.
Source 3 - Andrew Carnegie: Carnegie believed that the transportation system that has been brought up in the US is making many people less isolated. It is almost always good for all. Many machines that are being created "today" are helping the toilers become less and less hard working and allowing them to increase their productivity in most cases. He believed that because of transportation, people who lived in small, rural towns were no longer dependent on that one town.
Treatment of the Workers: Many of the people who lived in the city (, and obviously the workers) believed that everyone in factories worked much too hard. Not very many people admitted it though, because, despite the ideas and feelings of what the people had, the big businesses ran the town. The big businesses believed that if you could save a few bucks to make something less safe, then you were a few bucks richer. They did not care for the people that worked for them and it didn't matter what the working conditions were. Even though this is still relevant in some countries today (as well as parts of the US) it has died down a lot with the FDA regulations and the Unions that have been created since the 1900's. I believe that the people who worked in the factories in the 19th century were very poorly treated and very under paid for the work that they were doing. They should have been treated with dignity, respect, and higher pay since the work they were doing was the real reason behind why all the cities in the US ran.
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