Title: In What Way Did Industrialization Affect The Working Class? - eNotes.com
Headings: Industrialization and Captains of Industry
Industrialization and Captains of Industry
In What Way Did Industrialization Affect The Working Class?
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Content: This transformed the structure of the family. Men were the primary earners of wages and worked long hours. This specialization of labor created an alienated family where family members went long stretches without seeing one another. Women remained at home while men went to the factories to work. As it became evident that working class families could not make appropriate economic realities meet with one wage earner, women and even children ended up working equally long hours. The result was a broken family unit in which work dominated most, if not all, aspects of being. Testimonials of mothers like Jane Goode speaks to a condition that most experienced: I have had five children that have all worked at the factory. I have only one that works there now. She is sixteen.