November 23‚ 2011 Period 7 The Second Industrial Revolution Labor Movement During the late 1800s‚ the period when industrial growth was so dramatic was called the Second Industrial Revolution. New technologies expanded throughout this period such as the Bessemer process which was an inexpensive way to make steel from iron‚ oil‚ railroad expansion‚ and corporations. The Second Industrial Revolution created many jobs but it had many imbalanced conditions. The rich were getting tremendously
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(comparing white communities versus black communities) were practically contrapositive to each other. Basically‚ on average‚ the black people (or other inferior races during this time period) lived in terrible isolated districts that consist of tenements‚ where brown-skinned families live in extremely crowded habitats‚ unsanitary “rat-infested” (174) living conditions‚ with a barely affordable price. Whites on the other hand‚ lived in lavish and sanitary living conditions‚ with plenty of territory
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family’s income. Children as young as five or six manned machines or did jobs such as sweeping floors to earn money. No laws prevented the factories from using these children‚ so they continued to do so. "Sweatshops" were created in crowded‚ unsanitary tenements. These were makeshift construction houses‚ dirty and unbearably hot. The United States had the highest job-related fatality rate of any other industrialized nation in the world. Men and women earned twenty to forty percent less than the minimum deemed
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negative one like most perceive. The creation of the Hip Hop Culture helped black teenagers‚ as well as other minority teens to find something of their own in a country where they weren’t welcome by its other inhabitants. “Inspired by the DJs of the tenement blocks‚ black teenagers created hip hop‚ a celebratory subculture with its own language‚ its own music‚ dance‚ fashion and graffiti.” (Rap: Looking for the Perfect Beat‚ Shaw). Once I went through all of the documentaries and readings we did‚ I decided
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Manhattan‚ now the heart of Chinatown. The story is told by individual accounts of the residents and their experiences in the filthy‚ back alley slum filled with wretchedly poor European immigrants‚ as well as Chinese‚ who lived in densely packed tenements sandwiched among dance halls‚ gambling joints‚ saloons‚ and brothels‚ like sardines in a can. A somewhat forgotten or seldom mentioned point in history‚ Anbinder felt Five Points embodied the immigrant story of enduring great hardship on the way
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industry – large factories & use of steel * Rise of urban population due to immigration and migration * Architectural changes: skyscrapers‚ suspension bridges * Electricity and electric lighting * Urban planning & City Beautiful Movement * Tenements‚ urban poverty‚ lack of sanitation‚ crime‚ polution * Entertainment & Leisure: amusement parks‚ theatres and museums *
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States in response to social conditions. During this time period‚ conditions of the industrial revolution and increased immigration led to terrible conditions for the poor (Foner‚ 2014). In urban areas‚ poor families were packed into small unsanitary tenements. City slums were filled with disease‚ over-crowding‚ and crime. Factory workers‚ who were often very young children‚ were forced to work long days in unsafe conditions for very little money (Foner‚ 2014). Leaders of social gospel sought to address
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2010 Jean Baptist Meunier English 1001 No Sweat! Sweatshops date back to as far as the 16th century‚ but were first exposed in Britain in 1889. Around the 1830s-1840s‚ immigrants started coming to the United States and organized sweatshops in tenement buildings. Despite poor health problems and disease from the harsh conditions‚ immigrants needed the work and were appreciative. Today sweatshops are often found in slow‚ developing countries‚ but many are found around the world. Majority of the
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The expansion of the cities in Britain during the nineteenth century was due majorly to labourers and workers moving into the cities to find better employment as Britain was experiencing a good industrialisation and a growing economy at the time (Unison International) This increase in population led to the scarcity of homes and the few homes available were not affordable due to the fact that the private landlords were basically for money making. This scenario led to poor housing condition as a lot
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The Industrial Revolution The Agriculture Revolution was a time when people worked the land by using simple hand tools. By the 1800’s‚ most people in Western Europe and the United States lived on farms. The nation’s economy was based on farming and the making of goods by hand and trading. They lived in rural areas in little cottages lit with firelight and candles. They made their own clothes and grew their own food. The system of making your own clothes was called the putting out system. The
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