Industrial Revolution Impact
The Industrial Revolution and its Impacts on Parochial Schools in the United States
The 2nd Industrial Revolution brought forth the invention of new machines, new business, and even a new system of education to the United States. In this paper I will be discussing the latter. I will start with some background history of the 2nd Industrial Revolution, then I will argue that the economic power of the revolution brought with it European Catholics who, in an effort to retain their communities, culture, faith, and education, sought to build parochial schools to ensure their children would inherit the old world values.
The 2nd Industrial Revolution began in the latter half of the 19th …show more content…
Correspondingly, this increase led to a better understanding of sanitation and a massive surge in natural and foreign born populations. Thus, American factories were in possession of a wide range unskilled laborers, who would work for little pay. One of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution was that the world is now populated by many more people than could have been supported …show more content…
"By looking at events like the festa from within the community,” Robert Orsi, author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 found how it and other types of ethnic processions and festivals served as a coping mechanism to help maintain the community’s folkways in the difficult adjustment process in America. While maintaining ethnic culture, Orsi also suggests how it fostered a defiant animosity toward community infiltration. This helps explain struggles over parish space with Irish-American diocesan leaders seeking to promote Catholic Americanization...."17 The way that the Irish-Catholic immigrants could maintain and sustain their past and cultural, was through the community and gathering of Catholic institutions, such as Sunday Mass, or Catholic parochial schools where these immigrants first sent their children to school. This world view filled with hostility and malice towards the Catholic are illustrated by Philip Jenkins in his book New Anti-Catholicism: “Catholicism is so pernicious, so threatening…"18 Jenkins also provides a reason while this prejudice started in the first place. “"Explicitly religious arguments against Catholicism were inextricably linked with Anglo-American political ideologies, in which the Catholic Church represented the denial of personal liberty. Already in the
The 2nd Industrial Revolution brought forth the invention of new machines, new business, and even a new system of education to the United States. In this paper I will be discussing the latter. I will start with some background history of the 2nd Industrial Revolution, then I will argue that the economic power of the revolution brought with it European Catholics who, in an effort to retain their communities, culture, faith, and education, sought to build parochial schools to ensure their children would inherit the old world values.
The 2nd Industrial Revolution began in the latter half of the 19th …show more content…
Correspondingly, this increase led to a better understanding of sanitation and a massive surge in natural and foreign born populations. Thus, American factories were in possession of a wide range unskilled laborers, who would work for little pay. One of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution was that the world is now populated by many more people than could have been supported …show more content…
"By looking at events like the festa from within the community,” Robert Orsi, author of The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950 found how it and other types of ethnic processions and festivals served as a coping mechanism to help maintain the community’s folkways in the difficult adjustment process in America. While maintaining ethnic culture, Orsi also suggests how it fostered a defiant animosity toward community infiltration. This helps explain struggles over parish space with Irish-American diocesan leaders seeking to promote Catholic Americanization...."17 The way that the Irish-Catholic immigrants could maintain and sustain their past and cultural, was through the community and gathering of Catholic institutions, such as Sunday Mass, or Catholic parochial schools where these immigrants first sent their children to school. This world view filled with hostility and malice towards the Catholic are illustrated by Philip Jenkins in his book New Anti-Catholicism: “Catholicism is so pernicious, so threatening…"18 Jenkins also provides a reason while this prejudice started in the first place. “"Explicitly religious arguments against Catholicism were inextricably linked with Anglo-American political ideologies, in which the Catholic Church represented the denial of personal liberty. Already in the