Life during the industrial revolution
Title: Life during the industrial revolution
Category: History
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Life during the industrial revolution
LIFE DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Industrialization- As American factories grew, they no longer needed to employ skilled workers who had spent years learning their particular trade. Instead, they could hire unskilled laborers who performed simple tasks and worked for lower wages. As a result, American factory work became "deskilled" after the Civil War.
WORKING CONDITIONS
-Even in good times wages were low, hours long and working conditions hazardous.
-Little of the wealth which the nation …showed first 75 words of 864 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 864 total…Of costly clothing; by their side the dead
I smell who died to weave that cloth! Canst tell
Them from the lilies of the field? Tis well!
Or in the still hours of the night canst tell
The sobs of children from the dreadful noise
Machines make, when--deprived of childhood's toys--
The little ones in factories tall stand guard
O'er flying wheels, and through the night work hard,
Robbed of their sleep and play?
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