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19th century american industrial worker

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             In the latter half of the 19th century, all industries in the United States were undergoing a period of dramatic change. Consequently, the American industrial worker found himself in a fluctuating work environment, affected by the influences of immigration and technological innovation.
             The United States throughout the late nineteenth century was rapidly giving birth to a number of new technologies. Much of the century’s industrial progress can be attributed to inventions that led to greater productivity. After Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, Cyrus Field discovered how to improve the transatlantic cable and people could subsequently send messages over long distances. The telephone was additionally invented by Alexander Graham Bell along with the typewriter, cash register, and the camera. Thomas Edison also contributed a lot to America with his phonograph, ability to generate electric power, and motion camera. Other new technologies include equipment used to compose commodities. These advances generally speeded up production, which could have both positive and negative affects on the American industrial worker. In some situations, new machinery aided employees and notably increased manufacture decreasing the likelihood that products were being put together improperly. However, technological changes could undoubtedly be contradictorily analyzed. Equipped with these new error proof methods, many companies saw no need to employ workers. By the 1870s, machines were flawlessly creating goods by the millions, in the same time it would take an enormous squad of individuals to get the job done. Without the responsibility of paying so many people, business owners figured they would save an abundance of money and thus increase their profit. They would also be able to lower their selling prices and therefore add to the amount of customers. Those who kept around the majority of their workers despite the technological advances began...

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