WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Women and children gained higher social status as business owners.
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Women and children were more educated in order to compete forjobs.
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Women and children increasingly became wage earners in theirfamilies.
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Women and children rose as leaders in the movement to organizelabor.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lesson Summary. The Industrial Revolution was a major transitionary period throughout the world in which most production became mechanized. Because of this major boom in production, there was a need for cheap labor. This meant that both women and children entered the workforce, and they could be paid less than men.
Detailed explanation-2: -Industrialization brought new opportunities for employment, changing ideas of work, and economic cycles of boom and bust. During this period, women’s roles changed dramatically. Industrialization redefined the role of women in the home, at the same time opening new opportunities for them as industrial wage earners.
Detailed explanation-3: -With industrialization came a “cult of domesticity” to justify removing middle-class women from contact with the business world. Instead they became responsible for the home, servants, education of children, and the family’s social life.
Detailed explanation-4: -Exploitation of women and children: Women and children were also employed in industries. They were forced to do work without wages or wages less than the male workers. It badly affected their health. Increase in National Income: After the Industrial Revolution, they were now able to produce new items.