WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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Factory workers rarely included children.
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Factory workers were expected to be disciplined workers.
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Factory workers completed repetitive tasks.
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Factory workers were paid when they submitted their work.
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Factory workers had regular work hours.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another.
Detailed explanation-2: -Examples include fulling mills, where workers cleaned woolen cloth, as well as hammer forges, glassworks, breweries, and early paper mills.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Industrial Revolution was a period of major changes in the way products are made. It took place more than 200 years ago and greatly affected the way people lived as well as the way they worked. In earlier days, people made products by hand. They worked mostly in their own homes or in small workshops.
Detailed explanation-4: -When factories sprung up in the cities and industrial towns, their owners prized production and profit over all else. Worker safety and wages were less important. Factory workers earned greater wages compared with agricultural workers, but this often came at the expense of time and less than ideal working conditions.