WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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young girls from nearby farms
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African American freedmen
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poor whites who could no longer earn enough farming
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European immigrants from northern cities
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Detailed explanation-1: -Their mills were typically tiny, employing on average one to two dozen workers, who were frequently the children and older daughters of local farmers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cheaper labor overseas, technology and automation, international trade agreements and other conditions consistent with modernization, wages, education and economic diversification led to the demise of the textile industry in South Carolina from the 1970s through the 2000s.
Detailed explanation-3: -What prevented mill workers in South Carolina from forming unions to improve their working conditions? Political leaders in South Carolina supported mill owners in their fight to prevent the formation of unions. Mill workers lacked support from national unions who refused to help textile workers.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is the main reason that mill workers in South Carolina were unable to improve their conditions and salaries? Union organizers were fired and the labor movement was fiercely resisted by mill-owners. Diseases like tuberculosis and brown lung killed off workers before they could organize.