American Industrial Worker between 1865 and 1900

American Industrial Worker between 1865 and 1900

The American industrial workers during this time period were experiencing a big shift in terms of what they make, how they make and where they make products. This big shift comes from various sources. However there are two main driving factors: The technological changes and Labor unions. The technological changes are the main driving force behind this period. The rapid advancement in numerous fields affects the workers in numerous ways, but the changes result in negative changes toward the workers. In order to counterfeit the negative affects Labor Union try to work as a positive affect towards the worker.
The impact of technological changes was myriad and . The ‘factorization of many products drove handmade and homemade workers out of business. The manufactured products could not keep up with the low prices that factories suggested to the customers. Since the home based workers were running out of business they had no choice but to move into the cities(most home based workers were populated in rural areas) to work in factories. Most of the workers now worked in a factory and killed most of the skilled labor work. The factory consisted of monotonous jobs: there were sections of ‘assembly lines’ specialized in only one kind of job. Because most of the work force is in hand of the business owners, the dependence of workers toward job was enormous. Thus, the business owners subjugated them to work in long hours with poor sanitation without any raise in their salary. The power of the workers was limited because they did not have any alternatives to gain their financial need in any other way. Overall the technological change was a hostile impact on workers without a doubt. The only positive impact as in their life was only that the workers ‘generally’ became more equal in terms of class. The problem is that since everyone became equally same to each other, the standard itself did not change.
The second factor that had impact on American industrial workers...