Preindustrial work patterns in the United States involved reliance on individual artisans who made or finished goods and products on their own schedules, often in their own houses. This system, also referred to as the "putting-out system," provided workers with a great deal of freedom. Once the Industrial Revolution took hold in the nineteenth century, work patterns shifted; people largely worked outside the home in factories, offices, mines, and other places. Workers lost most of...
Preindustrial work patterns in the United States involved reliance on individual artisans who made or finished goods and products on their own schedules, often in their own houses. This system, also referred to as the "putting-out system," provided workers with a great deal of freedom. Once the Industrial Revolution took hold in the nineteenth century, work patterns shifted; people largely worked outside the home in factories, offices, mines, and other places. Workers lost most of the control over when and how their work was completed, and they worked under the direction of a new managerial class. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, a large working class developed in urban areas, along with an elite class of business owners and a sizable middle class that worked as managers. You may have studied other effects of the Industrial Revolution on the American class system.
The Industrial Revolution also included a Market Revolution during which new forms of transportation, including trains, canals, and roads, facilitated the transport of goods to market. As a result of canals linking the North and the Midwest, the North industrialized and became the center of the production of finished goods, and the Midwest became a center of food production; food products were then shipped east. The South was largely unindustrialized, except in some pockets, as it lacked the means of transportation.
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