Title: What effects did the factory system have on the American social structure? - eNotes.com
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What effects did the factory system have on the American social structure?
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Content: With the rise of factories, all of this changed. Work and home became separate places and ideas. People no longer lived in small communities with a relatively few people who knew them. Informal social pressures could not keep order among large groups of people who did not know one another well. Society moved towards the more formalized, rationalized system based on laws and more commercialized (rather than personal) relationships in which we now live. Approved by eNotes Editorial Team
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