Daily Life in the Industrial United States, 1870-1900 (Daily Life Through History Series)

by Julie Husband

Overview

Daily life in the Industrial age was ever-changing, unsettling, outright dangerous, and often thrilling. Electric power turned night into day, cities swelled with immigrants from the countryside and from Europe, and great factories belched smoke and beat unnatural rhythms while turning out consumer goods at an astonishing pace. Distance and time condensed as rail travel and telegraph lines tied the vast United States together as never before.

First-hand accounts from workers, housewives, and children help illuminate the significant achievements of the era and their impact on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Readers will learn of a broad range of personal experiences, while comprehending the importance of the economic and social developments of the period. A chronology, a glossary, more than 40 photographs, and further reading sources complete the work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313061097
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/30/2004
Series:	Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

JULIE HUSBAND is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.

JIM O'LOUGHLIN is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Photo Captions

Introduction: "I Felt Everything Get Bigger and Go Quicker Every Day"

The City

The Railroad

The Factory and Organized Labor Responses

Housework, Houses and Women at Home

Childhood and Family Life

Consumer Culture

Leisure and Entertainment

Education and Health Care

Religious and Civic Life

Conclusion: Not the Gilded Age

Glossary

Works Cited

About the Authors