Early Twentieth Century Workplace

The Twenty-First Century Work Place Life in the early twentieth century was provided by secure factory jobs. The United States was an industrial area filled with factories. People without much education could work in the factories and know their jobs were safe. There was no schooling or special skills required. People worked in the factories and made enough money to support themselves and their families. Today, factories full of human workers are a rare thing in America. Most people now go to college to further their education and get more specialized jobs. They believe in the luxuries their jobs can provide and not the value of their work. Twentieth century work and the values that came with it are rarely seen in America today. Factories now no longer need as many workers to run them. Many people’s jobs have been outsourced to machines and computers. Those factories and mills that stayed opened were able to spend their money on new technology. Mills that continued to operate were able to replace their workers with a new generation of nearly autonomous, computer- run machines (Davidson 320). Factory workers became obsolete to machines. One by one almost every worker was replaced by a fancy new computer system.
The thought that these workers could ever be replaced by machines never entered people’s minds. They knew they had secure jobs at these factories. In an article written by Adam Davidson, a young girl is close to losing her job in a factory to a machine. Davidson points out, “if she had been born in upstate South Carolina earlier in the twentieth century, her work life would have been far more secure” (Davidson 320). People in the twenty-first century don’t work in factories, they have more specialized or more socialized jobs. Technology is eating jobs (Kessler