How Has Industrialization Changed During The 1890's

During the early 1890’s, in the state of Massachusetts, there was a steel factory. Over the years a great deal of material changed how the steel factory ran and also how the workers were working. The movement started and affected everything from industrial manufacturing processes to the daily life of the average working citizen. Industrialization is the procedure which a state goes from an agriculture based economy to an economy based in industrial developments, such as textile, mining, iron, steel and transport revolutions. When this happens a ton of things around a factory changes.

Before industrialization happened everything was going well for twenty eight year old Theodore. He was living peacefully with his wife and their five year old child. Theodore was an unskilled worker at the nearest steel factory a few blocks away from they their very small, only one bedroom home. His wife, Janet, was a stay at home mom who cared for their child and was always making sure their home was
I hope they are good because then maybe I could get a higher pay and work less hours each day. Maybe we could evan move away from the factory”, said Theodore to his wife
Theodore was going to be cut but he plead to not be because of his current situation. Theodore was then put to work, working at a machine for the whole day and night. He and all of the other employees were finding out that this was not as they thought it would be. Everything increased, hours, work but the wages went down! Theodore was working for ten dollars week and now after new machines came in he only was making seven dollars a week. On top of that Theodore’s hours also increased by 3 more hours. The anger of the workers got up to a point where they all knew that this had to