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This 5 page paper examines this book by Alan Dawley that delves into the industrial revolution and how a city called Lynn fared. Examples are provided. No additional sources cited.
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of industry and how a town is affected through an examination of social, economic and cultural aspects of this one part of American life, and themes begin to emerge. Fast
forward to modern day America. People like Paris and Nicole make headlines because they are rich and famous. Paris reportedly goes through lots of new clothing simply because it is
easier to purchase new garb than to do the laundry. The lives of spoiled rich kids is fodder for discussion when things turn to issues of the homeless. Not surprisingly,
it is the young wealthy up and coming children of Generation Y who are immersed in social causes. Yet, what this tends to suggest is--like what some of the
Democrats have claimed--there are two Americas. This theme suggests that there are the haves, and then there are the "have nots." There is the elite and then there is
everyone else. It almost seems silly to have designations such as lower class, lower-middle class, upper-middle class and so forth when no one other than the very rich can really
afford free and easy lifestyles. Still, the class based situation is something that is obvious but hard to explain. Dawley tries in his look at one town in America during
the Industrial Revolution. Dawley (2000) breaks down his book entitled Class and Community--a work that focuses on the rise of industrialization in Lynn--into separate parts. Chapter One for example
focusses on entrepreneurs and talks about the trading culture (2000). At one point the author suggests that "even rural America was home to capitalist business methods and to a modern
bourgeois mentality" (13). In Chapter four, the author focuses on the city and suggests that there is an ascendancy of manufacturers in Lynn, Massachusetts. Again, Lynn could be any
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