1. American Industrial Revolution

2. Pre-industrial ways of working
The family labor system
Work at or near home, winter work
Barter system, just price, no schedule
Family apprenticeships

4. Patriarchy in family, work, and society The Social order
Only the wealthy were involved in political/civic affairs
Gradual change following the Am. Revolution

5. The Market Revolution
Brought on by improvements in transportation, commercialization, industrialization
Importance of capital – invest in American business following Embargo Act and War of 1812

6. Putting out system – made at home, piecework, central shops
British Technology – brought to America (ripe for industrialization)
Slater’s Mill – “smuggled “plans, use of women, children, importance of tariffs

7. Pawtucket, RI

9. Family mills – disagreements w/ towns
Lowell Mills – Francis Cabot Lowell, power loom, able to compete w/ British, development of industrial community
Family mills – disagreements w/ towns
The American System of Manufactures
Interchangeable parts, Whitney, Springfield Rifle, clocks, sewing machines

10. Lowell Mills

11. Springfield Rifle

13. From Artisan to Worker Change in personal relationships
Employer/employee, Wage slaves, “freedom to starve”, paternalism
Mechanization and women’s work
Low skill work, oversupply of workers, garment industry, long hours, low pay

14. Time, work, and leisure Free Labor Early strikes
Separation of work and leisure, controlled by the clock, growth of leisure time activities and class distinctions
Free Labor
Right of laborers to move from job to job, right to strike?
Early strikes
Led by women, mostly unsuccessful, demand for the 10 hour day

16. The Rat Race

17. Transportation Revolution
Erie Canal, steamboats, railroads

18. Increased govt. regulation
LLC’s lead to more industrialization
Shift to commercial agriculture
Regional specialization
Reliance on outside economic forces
Improved farm technology/yield

20. Charles Finney Evangelical Preacher Part of Second Great Awakening
Doctrine of Free Will
Social Reform including temperance

22. Why Temperance?

23. Immigration and Conflict
Differences between British, German, and Irish Immigrants
Nativism
Anti-Catholicism

25. Catholicism incompatible with Republicanism?