Workers in the Industrial Age
- The workforce hierarchy
- Words to Know
- Factory conditions
- Child labor
- Child labor reform
- Public Education
- Women workers
- Immigrant labor
- Sweatshops
- Coal mining
- Questioning laissez-faire policies
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During the last three decades of the nineteenth century, the majority of Americans became wage earners, people who worked for someone other than themselves. This was a first in U.S. history, as self-employed farmers had previously made up the majority...
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