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What effects did the factory system have on the American social structure?
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Content: The smaller and close-knit rural societies were also disrupted with members traveling to urban centers to seek work in the factories, creating larger and highly individualistic societies. The factory system also led to the widening class gap. The owners of the factories made a lot of money, while the worker majority was extremely underpaid and overworked. Further Reading
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As more people in the United States went to work in factories, the social structures that had bound Americans together became weaker. America had been a more communal society with informal social structures. With the coming of factories, it became a more rationalized society with more formal structures. Before the factories, people worked out of their own homes. They typically produced most of the things they needed and traded for the few things they did not produce. They lived in places where everyone knew everyone else. Society as a whole kept order through informal social pressures.