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Title: Market Revolution


1
Market Revolution
  • I. The Market Revolution
  • A. American Economy, 1800
  • B. First Industrial Revolution
  • C. Transportation
  • II. The Transformation of Work
  • A. Common labor
  • B. Deskilling
  • C. Manufacturing
  • III. Freedom and Frustration
  • A. The Decline of Servitude
  • B. From Craftsman to Laborer
  • C. Community under Pressure
  • IV. Worker Responses
  • A. Ambition
  • B. Association
  • C. Labor Protest
  • D. Mass Politics

2
American Economy, 1800
  • Farming
  • Hand Labor
  • Craft work
  • Local Family Firms
  • Upward Mobility
  • apprentice
  • journeyman
  • master

3
Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850
  • Spinning jenny
  • Steam engine
  • Iron puddling furnace
  • Cotton gin
  • Telegraph
  • Sewing machine

4
Transportation
  • Canals create market towns and cities.
  • Incentive for mass production

5
Common Labor
6
Deskilling Manufacturing
  • Division of labor
  • Machines
  • Teamwork
  • Discipline

7
Creating Class
An anxious blacksmith, circa 1850
8
The Decline of Servitude
  • Courts begin replacing paternalism with
    employment at-will.
  • Freedom of contract
  • Employer and employee have equal rights to make
    and break contracts.
  • Ignores difference in bargaining power.

Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw
(1781-1861)
9
Community under Pressure
Five Points, NYC, 1840s
10
Ambition
  • System offers opportunities for economic mobility.

Sewing machine inventor, Elias Howe
11
Association
  • Religion
  • 2nd Great Awakening
  • 1820-40
  • Church membership
  • Grows 100K in 1831
  • Revivals
  • 10-25K people attend
  • Mutual benefit
  • Fire companies
  • Insurance companies
  • Fraternal Societies

12
Labor Protest
  • Violence
  • Unskilled labor
  • Canal diggers
  • Boycotts
  • Skilled workers
  • Cordwainers
  • General Trades Union
  • Strikes
  • Machine Operatives
  • Women of Lowell

Workers in political cartoon, circa 1830s
13
Mass Politics
  • Workingmans Party
  • Jacksonian Democracy
  • Free labor ideology

President Andrew Jackson
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