Did the INdustrial revolution disrupt the American family?
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Industrialization born out of necessities.  Population has grown and demand  for commodities as well.  Families working together makes more time in working in other fields and thus having an ample time at each other.  Opportunities grew also fused by competition.  Education and knowledge has become imperative in the industry.  People then became self sufficient.  The society is still there the same, what changed is the culture.
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Cell phones and pagers, part of the technological revolution that was supposed to liberate everyone, is tethering people to their jobs to an unprecedented degree, to the point where family life is suffering.\nThe research, by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sociologist Noelle Chesley, appears in the December issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.\n\n\n"The use of cell phones and pagers was linked to increased distress and a decrease in family satisfaction over time," said Chesley, an assistant professor of sociology. "There is clearly a link between using the technology and experiencing increased access."\n\n\nFor the study, Chesley interviewed working couples over two time periods -- from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001. She found that between the interview periods, the use of cell phones and pagers decreased family satisfaction and increased distress and negative work-to-family and family-to-work spillover.\n\n\n"These technologies are linked to negative experiences and feelings from the workplace spilling over into the home," Chesley said. "We are becoming more accessible, which is letting in more of the bad than the good."\n\n\n"Women get kind of a double whammy," she added. "For women, in addition to having a lot of this stuff from work spill over into home life, they get the opposite. There is also a lot of negative stuff from home spilling over into the workplace."\n\n\nChesley thinks that better management of cell phone use is needed to reduce the stress effect she uncovered. Perhaps employers and employees should set limits on reaching each other to allow time for more positive family interaction, she suggested.\n\n\n"The question is, are these technologies helping us or hurting us in our daily life," Chesley asked. "The results of this study indicate that technology may not be so great."\n\n\nOne expert thinks the findings support the idea that cell phones are changing culture -- and not necessarily for the better.\n\n\n"These findings seem to support my intuitions about how cell phones affect our daily lives -- blurring boundaries between work and family life because of increased accessibility," said Tate Kubose, a cognitive scientist at the University of Illinois Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.\n\n\n"They also support the notion that we should really appreciate our women more, as they seem to shoulder a lot of the burden, even in marriages where both spouses work," he added.
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believe that we have degraded since the 50"s and early 60"s. think that is the last time America stood together on life issues. there was not family fall out like now. think people tried to do what was right even when it was hard. man tried to provide and make households survive while woman were trying to be thee best to be a mother not 100 different things and then a mother. (no way intended as a slam meaning trying to be a worker teacher home maker taxi driver sister daughter wife then mother is very hard. and not far back in the 50S most woman stayed at home and had the ability to be th mother they dreamed of. ) we treated our kids different as the future not as a necessity or interruption.
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Actually YES! They still do even now and have allways been so during known human history. \nDuring the industrial revolution there were mainly two social classes: the owners of the land and means of production and the laborers.\nFirst there were the manufacturing workers. These were over-abused over exploited people, forced sometimes to work even 12 to 16 hours a day to earn their living. They wore plain cotton and linnen clothes, sometimes in the winter they also used woolen clothes. Since payment was very low and there was no actual compensation of the hard work, people had to primarily attend to their basic needs: home and food and there was often too little to be spent on clothing and footwear. Wooden sabots were often the basic footwear, with leather boots as a sign of distinction.\nJewels were rare and often included plain metal rings and earrings, or glass beads. Later on, as manufacturing developped, better clothing became more or less available for the masses as cotton and linnen clothes were cheaper and easier accessible.\nThen there were the agricultural workers whose status and quality of life differed and who often wore woollen garments made in house (knittings and sort) and also home made linnen. They too purchased cotton fabrics and also at times, more expensive cotton fabrics such as velvet for use in their sunday clothes.\nThe upper classes wore fashionable clothing, made from materials ranging from silk brocade, wool, cashmere, silk shirts and underwear. As allways, female clothing was extremely ellaborate and often, precious metal ornaments could be found even in footwear.\nWomen wore, in accordance to the occasion and weather a wide range of footwear, in all sorts of materials, from silk, embroidered brocade to high quality soft leather.
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agree with you as the best times I remember were family orientated. seems as though modern society in having to make a living has taken over
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there have been a number of reform movements in history.  the most likely ones you might be talking about are The Protestant Reformation or the social reform movement of the 19th century that followed on the heels of the industrial revolution.
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the industrial revolution was a series of major industrial breakthroughs that began in textile industry in England in the late 1800s, then spread to europe and america. Factorys first formed, and British manufacturing increased greatly. The main good thing that came out of the industrial revolution was all of the products. the steam engine was invented, trains were first used and many other things that we take for granted today came out of the industrial revolution.
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Technology has made our world so much smaller. It is through this wonderful thing called the internet that we are able of discuss religion with monks in tibet and rock music with hippees in england all without leaving our homes.\nTechnology has allowed us to keep a close knit family relationship cheaply and more easily despite the impedances of distance. Through advances such as webcams and cellular phones I am able to talk to my dad in California for a fraction of what it would have cost just ten years ago.\nTechnology is modelling our society into one without boundaries. It is ever bringing us closer to one another. Whether we want to be close or not.
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much truth... \n\nwoman entering the work force has driven (kept) wages down while the standard of living has increased dramatically. working and middle class people need two incomes to keep afloat. \nand children are suffering. no one's there to watch them and the people who are aren't allowed to discipline them. \n\ni think we should regain control of public schools and respect the idea of one parent working full-time at home... mom or dad.
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First of all Americans are Brits, but are in different countries, and civil war occours in the SAME country, but I think I know what you are refering to.\n\nThe American Revolution was a revolution that ended two centuries of rule of the Thirteen Colonies by the British Empire and created the modern United States of America. The Revolutionary era was both exhilarating and disturbing–a time of progress for some, dislocation for others. The American Revolution is the series of ideas, and changes that resulted in the revolution and ensuing political separation of thirteen colonies in North America from the British Empire and the creation of the United States of America with a new political system. The American War of Independence which lasted from 1775 to 1783, was one part of the revolution, but the revolution by the Americans began before the first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord and continued after the British surrender at Yorktown. Years later, in 1818, John Adams wrote: "The Revolution was effected before the War commenced," and "The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people."\n\nHistorians usually agree that the revolutionary era began in 1763 as Britain defeated France in the French and Indian War, and the military threat to the colonies from France ended. The end of the period is usually marked by as Treaty of Paris in 1783. However, references to the "revolutionary era" sometimes stretched to 1789, when a new government under George Washington began operating.\n\nInterpretations about the effect of the revolution vary. At one end of the spectrum is the older view that the American Revolution was not "revolutionary" at all, that it did not radically transform colonial society, but simply replaced a distant government with a local one. The more recent view pioneered by historians such as Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood and Edmund Morgan is that the American Revolution was a unique and radical event, based on a new ideology of "republicanism" which produced deep changes that had a profound impact on world history.
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1. The turning point from rural to industrial economy\n2. automation, work less and achieve more. freedom (since engines were developed, slavery - the way people had it - was not needed!). More free time => more education. More cultural exchanges.
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In what ways did American ideology represent the growth of industry and mechanical technology, and how does that compare to the way it is addressed in creative literature? \nHow did the labor movement effect the growth of industry at the turn of the century?\nHow were local artisan-craftsmen affected by the growth in mechanical technology and mass production?
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If you stay home and raise your family then they will turn out better than kids that have working parents that do not spend time with there kids that much. Plus with each parent working it puts stress on the marriage which is why marriage failures have increased within the last 50 years.
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When I was growing up, my mom was able to stay home and raise her children. That time frame did not require both parents to work in order to pay the bills. Now that I am an adult, I have found that industrialization means that both parents must work, simply to make ends meet. We have less time as a family to sit down to supper (depending on the work schedules), and even less time to go on family outings. I think it is sad. We work mainly to pay the bills, like house and car insurance, health insurance, gas bills, etc, etc. It's not easy to live on one income anymore. Sadly, my children will probably grow up with the knowledge that both mom and dad have to work, again, just to make ends meet.
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yes, it can start thinking beyond an industrial model and move into the modern age. the current educational model is based on a world dominated by factories: parents went to work in a factory, and their children were warehoused in buildings while they were away from the home. learning was not the primary motivator, creating a compliant citizenry that could work these new industrial jobs was.\n\nwe have obviously moved beyond that time. not only could many parents who are commuting to jobs be working from home (telecommuting), so too could schools move into an anytime, anywhere educational model where school buildings were more like community centers where people of all ages could gather for those educational opportunities that require a physical presence. the rest of education could be paced at the rate of the learner, and not segregated by age, and happen in a variety of ways (online, experiential--you name it). \n\nbecause of school funding cuts, this kind of change will happen, more than likely--that is, unless people allow corporations to take the place of schools. (i hope people choose the route of more free rather than less free. time will tell.)
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That's a great question to ask, and historians have been debating that one for some time.  A good historian to look into on this is Thomas Dublin (who, incidentally, is a really cool professor and for a well-regarded scholar has very little ego), who did a lot of early work on this topic.  \n\nI personally would say benefit.  Certainly the mill girls gained experiences that they never would have had otherwise and made money.  They also in many cases found husbands in the area.  They were taken care of, did not fall prey to rogues and scammers, and did get intellectual benefits as well. They even put out their own newsletter and worked together for economic justice and gains.
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This really depends on where and what societal class you are talking about. However in Europe, society was basically divided into three sections, known as the First, Second, and Third Estate. The First Estate consisted of the nobility. The nobility were extremely rich and had enormous political power. They oversaw the elections and appiontments of the clergy, the Second Estate. The Second Estate were also relativly wealthy but not as wealthy as the First Estate. They also had less political power and the power they did have, they vested into bidding the will of the First Estate in order to retain their power. Lastly, the Third Estate consisted of merchants, artisans, and esstentially the commoners. They were substantially less wealthy but consisted of largest portion of the population. They had little political power despite their vast numbers. Unlike the First or Second Estate, the Third Estate was subject to the most taxes and worked the longest hours.\n\nAs for life in North America, the United States had recently won their independence (1776) and the citizens were eager to assert their independence. Like in Europe, large social divisions marked the American society. At the top of society were the wealthy plantation owners. These people mainly lived in the south because thats where the most profitable crops (cotton and tobacco) grew readily. The middle class mainly lived in the North which in the early 19th century, was relativly undeveloped. At the bottom of the social order were the slaves. They had little or no independence. However, in the mid-19th, tensions between pro-slavery states in the south and anti-slavery states in the north exploded into the Civil War. During the war, the north became more and more industrialized, giving the north a comparative advantage in the war. At the end of the war, slaves were granted their freedom, but that did not mean that they moved up socially. Towards the end of the 19th centruy, the industrial revolution drastically changed the landscape of the American society. Workers were able to produce more in less time. More and more blue-collar workers began moving to the more industrialized north. They worked long tiresome hours. Minimum wage was nonexistant was were any work regulations. Child labor was heavily prevelant. However, women were not accepted into the workplace on a large scale until later in the 20th century.