Differences Between 1870 And 1920's
Progressivism
Between 1870 and 1920 a population shift occurred from rural to urban. Early immigrants and new immigrants differed greatly in many areas. Urbanization lead to changes in technology such as transportation, water power, steam power, and machinery. Though city dwellers received technology first, this technology allowed for people to live outside the city and still work there. The industry was dominated by large companies, who supplied work. America had several problems during the urbanization of 1870 to 1920, exploitation of workers and deplorable food manufacturing conditions being a few.
Due to the influx in immigrants many people needed jobs, which gave big businesses an advantage. This advantage being the exploitation of workers. Employees were paid starvation rates for long shifts of hard work. In stating this: the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, a textile making factory on an upper floor in a high building, locked its workers inside during the shift. No one was allowed to leave during any time throughout the shift. Andrew Carnegie, a steel tycoon, ran many factories manufacturing the aforementioned steel. Although many of these factories had unions the one at Homestead was stronger than most due to its extreme solidarity with unskilled workers. Workers were overworked, long hours and …show more content…
“There would be meat that had tumbled on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.” (Sinclair, The Jungle) The book became wildly popular with people of the middle class and elsewhere, people saw their food as tainted and with excerpts of the book in support, adulterated. Eventually the president even read it, and the people pushed for
Between 1870 and 1920 a population shift occurred from rural to urban. Early immigrants and new immigrants differed greatly in many areas. Urbanization lead to changes in technology such as transportation, water power, steam power, and machinery. Though city dwellers received technology first, this technology allowed for people to live outside the city and still work there. The industry was dominated by large companies, who supplied work. America had several problems during the urbanization of 1870 to 1920, exploitation of workers and deplorable food manufacturing conditions being a few.
Due to the influx in immigrants many people needed jobs, which gave big businesses an advantage. This advantage being the exploitation of workers. Employees were paid starvation rates for long shifts of hard work. In stating this: the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, a textile making factory on an upper floor in a high building, locked its workers inside during the shift. No one was allowed to leave during any time throughout the shift. Andrew Carnegie, a steel tycoon, ran many factories manufacturing the aforementioned steel. Although many of these factories had unions the one at Homestead was stronger than most due to its extreme solidarity with unskilled workers. Workers were overworked, long hours and …show more content…
“There would be meat that had tumbled on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.” (Sinclair, The Jungle) The book became wildly popular with people of the middle class and elsewhere, people saw their food as tainted and with excerpts of the book in support, adulterated. Eventually the president even read it, and the people pushed for