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