Societal Effects of the Americ

             The American Industrial Revolution had many profound and
             indelible effects on American society. The enormous
             expansion of American business and industry promoted a
             drastic change in the basic division of labor. The basic
             need of industry is labor, so a great demand for a workforce
             was created. Growing industrialization caused a huge influx
             of laborers into cities. As more factories sprang up, labor
             was expanded to utilize women and children. With expanding
             business and more workers, workers began to adamantly demand
             higher wages or more favorable hours; unionization came into
             full force. The American Industrial Revolution caused major
             growth of urban populations, precipitated a change the
             division of labor, and began movements for workers rights
             The migration of laborers from rural farm life to urban
             factory life was a major result of America's
             industrialization. A fact of economic life is that workers
             in an industrial setting are able to command higher wages
             than farm workers. Labor in an industrial setting is simply
             more efficient than the productivity of farm workers.
             Because economic systems compensate laborers in accordance
             with their output rather than how hard or how long they
             work, industrial labor becomes the obvious choice for a
             worker. As Chamberlain states in The Enterprising
             Americans, "The productivity for a worker in a factory could
             be as much as ten times that of their farming counterparts"
             (97). Simply stated, the simple gain in productivity meant
             a wage increase ten times that of farm work, only by
             switching to industrial labor. For the great majority of
             workers, this was too much to resist, causing an exodus of
             laborers from rural to urban areas and skyrocketing the
             As factories spread, there was a high demand for
             workers. However, during the early stages of
             industrialization, labor was difficult to obtain. In urban
             areas...

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