What Role did the factory workers play in the formation of our nation?

  

Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, p. 202. Kennedy lists his source for these figures as  International Industrialization Levels from 1750 to 1980, by Bairoch,  pp. 294, 302.





Women working in small working conditions
 in the factoryproducing clothes.
                                                                                    
                             During the 1900's The United states had an important production of iron and steel, which also had Britain take place in. Mostly it was the United States that had most of the world’s production on Iron and steel. According to the article "The United states had about 23.6 percent of the world’s total against Britain which had about 18.5 %." Mostly what the United States also produced was cotton, corn and oil as well coal and the gold. The growth in the agriculture was also being experience by the United States. In Most of the areas in the United States they were many poor people. People who lived in the cities were mostly the Factory workers, they lived cities and towns that had the population about 2,500 people. Also Most of the factory workers they lived in the unsanitary tenements,cause of the Factory workers they helped produced all the production of the iron steel corn etc. With the rise of the industries clothing stores, catalogs, shopping by the telephone where made, it mostly made a huge rise for technology, as well with electricity  Most importantly the Factory workers helped make products more cheaper, as well workers made prodcuts more quicker. 

 
Source from: http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch03.htm



Workers from the factoies all gathered up
protesting that their wages isn't fair enough