{"id":2268,"date":"2021-03-05T05:04:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2268"},"modified":"2021-10-28T01:17:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T01:17:36","slug":"introduction-to-early-industrialization","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/chapter\/introduction-to-early-industrialization\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Early Industrialization","rendered":"Introduction to Early Industrialization"},"content":{"raw":"<h2 id=\"fs-idp125846736\">What you'll learn to do:\u00a0describe the causes and effects of industrialization and the goals of workers\u2019 organizations<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/03\/12204240\/spinning-cotton-yarn-in-the-great-textile-mills-lawrence-mass-b9efa2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5035 \" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/03\/12204240\/spinning-cotton-yarn-in-the-great-textile-mills-lawrence-mass-b9efa2.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a woman working and spinning cotton in the great textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts.\" width=\"623\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\nIndustrialization led to radical changes in American life. New industrial towns, like Waltham, Lowell, and countless others, dotted the landscape of the Northeast. The mills provided many young women an opportunity to experience a new and liberating life, and these workers relished their new freedom. Workers also gained a greater appreciation of the value of their work and, in some instances, began to question the basic fairness of the new industrial order. The world of work had been fundamentally reorganized.","rendered":"<h2 id=\"fs-idp125846736\">What you&#8217;ll learn to do:\u00a0describe the causes and effects of industrialization and the goals of workers\u2019 organizations<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/03\/12204240\/spinning-cotton-yarn-in-the-great-textile-mills-lawrence-mass-b9efa2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5035\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5595\/2021\/03\/12204240\/spinning-cotton-yarn-in-the-great-textile-mills-lawrence-mass-b9efa2.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a woman working and spinning cotton in the great textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts.\" width=\"623\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Industrialization led to radical changes in American life. New industrial towns, like Waltham, Lowell, and countless others, dotted the landscape of the Northeast. The mills provided many young women an opportunity to experience a new and liberating life, and these workers relished their new freedom. Workers also gained a greater appreciation of the value of their work and, in some instances, began to question the basic fairness of the new industrial order. The world of work had been fundamentally reorganized.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2268\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>US History. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: OpenStax. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/us-history\/pages\/9-1-early-industrialization-in-the-northeast\">https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/us-history\/pages\/9-1-early-industrialization-in-the-northeast<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em>. <strong>License Terms<\/strong>: Access for free at https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/us-history\/pages\/1-introduction<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">Public domain content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Spinning cotton yarn in the great textile mills, Lawrence, Mass.. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: New York Public Library. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypl.getarchive.net\/media\/spinning-cotton-yarn-in-the-great-textile-mills-lawrence-mass-b9efa2\">https:\/\/nypl.getarchive.net\/media\/spinning-cotton-yarn-in-the-great-textile-mills-lawrence-mass-b9efa2<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/pdm\">Public Domain: No Known Copyright<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":23592,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"US History\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"OpenStax\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/us-history\/pages\/9-1-early-industrialization-in-the-northeast\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"Access for free at https:\/\/openstax.org\/books\/us-history\/pages\/1-introduction\"},{\"type\":\"pd\",\"description\":\"Spinning cotton yarn in the great textile mills, Lawrence, Mass.\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"New York Public Library\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nypl.getarchive.net\/media\/spinning-cotton-yarn-in-the-great-textile-mills-lawrence-mass-b9efa2\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"pd\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"0827e7ac-8d05-4d1e-b82d-2850437a9d9d","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2268","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3006,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23592"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7442,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2268\/revisions\/7442"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3006"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2268\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}