History 103 *** AMERICAN HISTORY TO 1877 *** Nov. 8, 1996

LAUNCHING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

I. Manufacturing in the Early Republic

• Hamilton's Report
• Household production and its decline

II. Transformation of Production

• Enlargement of craft shops
• Emergence of "putting-out" system
• Early factories

III. The Coming of the Cotton Mill

• Samuel Slater and the Rhode Island system
• Francis Cabot Lowell, Boston Associates, and the Waltham system
• Lowell, Mass.: paternalism, profits, protest

IV. Rise of Labor Radicalism

• Early journeymen societies and strikes
• Philadelphia
  • Mechanics' Union of Trade Associations
  • Working Men's Party
  • General Trades' Union, General Strike
• New York
• Decline and resurgence of unionism

V. Immigrants and Their Impact

• Patterns of European immigration
• Nativist reaction
• Ethnic vs. class consciousness