1. The Industrial Revolution in America Social relations transformed

2. I. The Great Transformation A.Cottage industry 1. Putting out 2. Home & work

3. B. “American System” of manufacturing 1. Samuel Slater Slater 2. War of 1812 3. John H. Hall - interchangeable parts

4. 4. Textiles – “leading industry - production under one roof - control over mode of production - factory life and social change

5. II. New work, new workers Origins of the American working class

6. A. Decline of the artisan 1.Declining need for skilled labor 2.Production, place & control - new obligations

7. B. Finding workers 1.Company towns 2.Lowell girls

8. C. Immigration 1.1820-1830: 151,000 1830-1840: 600,000 1840-1850: + 1M Demographic growth, cultural revolution

9. 2. Out of Ireland 3. German immigration

10. D. Survival strategies 1. (1 st / 2 nd generation) - tenements - religion - neighborhoods/ communities 2. Leisure

11. 3. Nativism - racist - protestant “Know-Nothings”

12. E. “Blue collar” America 1.Factory discipline “ wage slaves” - working conditions - living conditions

13. F. Labor & republicanism 1.Free Labor Ideology “Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, eight hours for what we will”

14. G. Alternatives to industrialization 1.Utopian Socialism – Robert Owen, Saint-Simone 2. Agrarian communalism 3. Romanticism

15. III. The Middle Class A.Bourgeois culture 1. Distinguish themselves 2. Pro-capitalist, concerned with abuses Liberalism

16. B. Home life and the Cult of Domesticity 1.Male & female “spheres”? 2.Empowerment, or “gilded cage”? She's only a bird in a gilded cage, A beautiful sight to see. You would think she was happy And free from care. She's not, though she seems to be. It's sad when you think of her wasted life, For Youth cannot mate with Age. And her beauty was sold For an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

17. C. Romanticization and separation of male/female culture 1.Marriage, motherhood 2.Women and Society 2 nd Great Awakening Temperance Abolition

18. D. Early feminism 1.Born in Abolitionist movement Eliz. Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott 2. Seneca Falls Conference Declaration of Sentiments

19. Reform born in industrial era increasingly intolerant of slavery… Transcendentalism/Romanticism 2 nd Great Awakening Free Labor Feminism Abolition