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An 8 page paper which examines the racial, ethnic and class problems that emerged as a result, considers how the problems were related, the key element of capitalist modernity and whether or not they are still being faced today. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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perfected steam engine as a source of power for his cotton mill marked the beginning of the automated society, and soon America and the rest of the world began industrializing
in earnest. Improved transportation and communication in the form of railroads, transatlantic cables, telegraph and radios made the world a smaller place during the nineteenth century and life everywhere
was revolutionized through technology and capitalism - which was the exchange of goods and services, i.e., employment and consumerism - for a price. Factories and urban centers emerged where
there was once farmland and suddenly, opportunities seemed unlimited to anyone who was willing to work hard. Or, so that was the capitalist ideal. Change became the only constant
and assembly lines cranked out products as quickly as workers could make them. Prosperity was equated with capitalist modernity, and the capital largely consisted of the lower classes and
one-time peasants, immigrants, Africans and African-Americans, women and children. The eventual price of the Industrial Revolution was high in terms of the racial, ethnic and class problems it generated.
One of the underlying problems that stemmed from the Industrial Revolution was that businesses were not collectively owned, but were owned by private individuals, who naturally placed their own
needs over those of their workers. Kevin Reilly (1989) observed in his text on Western Civilization, "Private ownership would always mean that the profits of the new productivity would
be monopolized by the owning class. Capitalist society would continually increase the gap between owners and workers" (p. 190). Everybody wanted a piece of the economic pie, but
unfortunately, nowhere in the world was it ever cut equally. As demand exceeded supply, skilled and unskilled workers were needed to operate machinery and to mine coal and metals.
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