indelible effects on American society. The enormous

expansion of American business and industry promoted a

drastic change in the basic division of labor. The basic

need of industry is labor, so a great demand for a workforce

was created. Growing industrialization caused a huge influx

of laborers into cities. As more factories sprang up, labor

was expanded to utilize women and children. With expanding

business and more workers, workers began to adamantly demand

higher wages or more favorable hours; unionization came into

full force. The American Industrial Revolution caused major

growth of urban populations, precipitated a change the

division of labor, and began movements for workers rights

The migration of laborers from rural farm life to urban

factory life was a major result of America's

industrialization. A fact of economic life is that workers

in an industrial setting are able to command higher wages

than farm workers. Labor in an industrial setting is simply

more efficient than the productivity of farm workers.

Because economic systems compensate laborers in accordance

with their output rather than how hard or how

To further lower the costs of labor, industry often used

different than their old, rural one. With the speedy growth

of the urban population, typical urban problems arose.

a wage increase ten times that of farm work, only by

wages. The Lowell women persisted in their crusades, and

specifically limiting and enforcing the hours of child labor

Revolution was the causing factor of many social changes,

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