Launching the Industrial Revolution
History 103
Nov. 6, 1998
Manufacturing in the Early Republic
- Hamilton’s Report (1791)
- Household production and its decline
Transformation of Production
- Enlargement of craft shops
- Division of labor
- Diverging interests of masters and journeymen
- Emergence of "putting-out" system
- Early factories
The Coming of the Cotton Mill
- Samuel Slater and the Rhode Island System
- Francis Cabot Lowell, the Boston Associates, and the Waltham System
- Lowell, Massachusetts: showplace of American industrialism
- Debate over Lowell
- Limits of paternalism:
- Lowell strikes of 1834, 1836
- Ten-hour movement of the 1840s
Emergence of Working-class Consciousness
- Early journeymen societies, strikes, and trials for conspiracy
- Philadelphia:
- Mechanics Union of Trade Associations (1827)
- Working Men’s Party (est. 1829)
- General Trades’ Union (est. 1834)
- New York
- National Trades’ Union (est. 1834)
- Decline and resurgence of unionism (1840s-1850s)
- Lynn Shoemakers’ Strike of 1860
Impact of Immigration
- Immigration by Decade
- Sources of Immigration
- Nativist reaction
- Acceleration of industrialization and diversification of American society