The Causes Of The Second Industrial Revolution

In the following quote from the Homestead strike reading is a reflection of what happened, “The Battle at Homestead will be remembered as an occasion where human greed and civil rights collided and neither one came out on top” The Homestead strike made the Industrial Revolution more harmful because it lost many lives that didn’t need to be lost. Carnegie company was one of the richest ever and it couldn’t afford to give poor men and women a small pay raise. Also, they created a horrible situation by sending in the Pinkertons to do their dirty work. The amazing thing is that Frick had a huge mansion ten miles away but he still had to starve families.

Huge corporations built homes, schools, churches, and general stores in towns near the mines. Everything the miners and their families needed could be purchased from the company, but unfortunately, under this system the living conditions were horrible and wages were low. As a result, many miners began to support the idea of joining a union. Lorraine Boissoneault stated that union supporters were fired, beaten, arrested, and subjected to a campaign of terror. “When this union business started up, first thing the Company did was turn us out” (Lines 7-9).

Eventually it got to the point where these workers were working so much, but barely made enough to support their family. The Knights of Labor was the first national labor group formed in 1869. This group wanted to gain an eight-hour workday, expel asian workers and immigrants from the far east, and stop child labor. Around the same time a new national organization named the American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed when the Knights of Labor union declined. The new organization was led by Samuel Gompers, a cigar maker that helped to form the union.

It influenced the Atlantic world by labor, pastoral production, trade, and increased the production of cash crop. In document In document one it is referring to the depopulation of America due to the great dying which killed approximately 21 million people. In document 2 a secondary source document is states, "Sugar production was hard , year - round work and sometimes around the clock...required a large amount of carefully coordinated work under misery This shows that the slaves were always hard working and were require to do all the miserable hard work"This Information is relevant to my claim because it shows how the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade affected the economic system, because it shows the labor system and how they would be treating slaves like property instead of humans. Document 5 shows that as slave population grew or increased the amount of sugar increased. The reason for that is because their are more slaves to do the work, which result into more sugar.

Within the Triangle Waist Company factory a fire broke out, killing 145 employees. Throughout the early 1900s, labor conditions within the United States of America were unbearable. Including unreasonable pay, half-day shifts and unsafe factory environments, the day events would change would soon follow March 25, 1911. Enclosed within “The Triangle Fire” written by Jo Ann E. Argersinger, are wisely selected stories that speak to individuals reading them. Each document specifies the impact the Triangle Fire had on these young women, both mentally and physically.

Most people would feel devastated, hurt, lost, and angry. This was no different in 1877 when The Great Railroad Strike began. Working on the railroad was a popular job in the 1800’s. It was

The West Midlands became known as the ‘Black Country’ because of its landscape of dark foundries, and a smoky atmosphere (Pettinger 1). Overall, working-class neighborhoods were bleak, crowded, dirty, and polluted (Factory Act 1). “From 1880 to 1990, over 35,000 industrial workers were killed annually, and another 536,000 suffered injury” (Hillstrom 58). Injured workers would typically lose their jobs and receive no financial compensation to pay for their much needed health care (Factory Act

Grapes of Wrath show the unfair working situations that migrants face when they arrive in California. Land Owners are the most wealthy and powerful having the ability to pay their workers a poor wage. In the Grapes of Wrath, many Americans lose their homes, jobs and life savings, forcing them to move and leave behind their land in hopes of finding a prosperous place to live. The Great Depression (1929-1939) was the worst, deepest and longest lasting economic collapses in the industrialized western world. The Joad family is planning to move to California, but some of them have doubts and attachments that make them contemplate whether or not it is the right choice.

The industrial revolution was a time of immense progress. It marked an era of technological advancements and a changing society, yet also a period smeared with unfair and unsafe working conditions. The history is filled with stories of people suffering, being injured, and even dying, all in the process of creating goods for the changing consumer culture. Thousands looked past the suffering, condoled themselves with the goods they purchased at economical prices all at the expense of the working class, a class that had no other choice than to work in the dark, dangerous factories to feed their family. While the consumer culture in this time could look past the anguish of those in the working class, progressives could not.

At the point when ladies work outside, their informal community would be augmented. They have more opportunities to meet new individuals and make new companions. In correlation, on the off chance that they remain at home being a housewife, they have lesser opportunity to meet new individuals. By having a superior social life, ladies can be more beneficial inwardly. A lady who just remain at home don 't have much opportunities to associate with others and consequently they would be candidly unbalance.

Deepesh Giri Imagine working in a factory standing up, putting your hand in hot water, and removing silk from silkworms for 13-14 hours. This was what the life of women and children in silk factories were during the Industrial Revolution in Japan. The Industrial Revolutions began in the 1800s it made producing goods like cloth faster and cheaper with the invention of machines. In Japan it did not arrive till 1868. In 1868 industrialization began because in that year Japan had new leaders who wanted to catch up with the west economically and militarily.

In the chapter Takaki describes how the Japanese 's oversea to America because of the Bearing of the burden taxation. ' 'A lot of farmers suffered severe economic hardships during the 1880 's ' ' (Takaki 231), that caused a lot of the famers to unable to pay their taxes. Due to the Bearing of the Burden taxation several of the famers lost their lands that caused starving many parts of the country. Then, the Takaki describes the picture brides in America, which is how women is a ' 'picture bride system was based om the established custom of arraigned marriage ' ' (Takaki 234).

The homestead strike can be linked to the failure of the creation of a working class in America, but made the federal government aware of the need to intervene in labor disputes. Presently in America, there a limited unions and people tend to work as

The factors that led the three groups for the strike were different in every situation. The miners went on strike because their pay roll were not that good or not that high for live life perfectly. Their working condition not that good, and they wanted their union recognized. The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company also monopolizing them by having to buy good sold at stores run by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. In turn the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company also paid the teacher and doctors assigned to the camps.

The rise and fall of the Populist party all started when farmers from all over the nation gathered together and addressed some common problems that they were facing. Farmers were stuck in a bad economic cycle. Prices for their crops were falling, and unfortunately farmers often had to mortgage their farms so that they could buy more land and produce more crops in order to “flourish”. There was very little suitable land to farm and cultivate and banks were foreclosing on the mortgages of farmers who could not make the payments on their loans. Moreover, the railroads were being taken advantage of farmers by charging excessive prices for shipping and storage.