The Impacts of Industrial Revolution on the Nation’s Workers

In the later decades of 19th century, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. At the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, iron puddlers were indispensable to the production process but faced a determined adversary in Andrew Carnegie. In the South, Reconstruction held the promise of racial equality, but many freed people labored under John T. Milner and J. W. Comer in the convict leasing system, legally justified by the Thirteenth Amendment. Out West, The Transcontinental Railroad united the nation, but the Central Pacific Railroad Company (CPRR), under the supervision of James Strobridge, caused divisions at the expense of “Railroad Chinese.”
This assignment asks you to critically evaluate the different conditions of work and the difficulties these three groups of workers encountered with their respective employers. Conclude your paper by assessing the degree in which these workers were able to exert control over their work.
Support your argument with specific evidence from class readings only (e.g. Blackmon, Chang, and Krause). No need to include the three authors’ names, titles of their pieces, or what they are about. Be sure to properly cite your sources and include a separate works cited page in MLA style at the end of your paper (this page does not count as the total length of your five-page paper). Use Time New Roman 12pt. font.
Following are suggestions from the professor, you have to strictly follow them:
How to frame an argument
1. Context (background)
2. Statement of the problem
3. Response to the problem
Step 1. Establish common ground, shared understanding between you and your reader
Step 2. state your problem, disrupt reader, you may think, you know something, but there is a gap in your understanding
Step 3. State your response to the problem
In the later decades of 19th century, the Industrial Revolution was in full swing. At the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, iron puddlers were indispensable to the production process but faced a determined adversary in Andrew Carnegie. In the South, Reconstruction held the promise of racial equality, but many freed people labored under John T. Milner and J. W. Comer in the convict leasing system, legally justified by the Thirteenth Amendment. Out West, The Transcontinental Railroad united the nation, but the Central Pacific Railroad Company (CPRR), under the supervision of James Strobridge, caused divisions at the expense of “Railroad Chinese.”
But these historical events conceal the impact of industrialization on the nation’s workers.
Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick harnessed the Bessemer process to break the puddlers monopoly of skin and knowledge
John T. Milner and JW Comer re-slaved freed blacks under the convict leasing system.
And James Strobridge and Charles Crocker exploited racial divisions between White workers and the “railroad Chinese”
Subjects: puddlers, convict laborers, “railroad Chinese”
Main points
Technology
Race/ethnic
Working conditions
“bottle neck" Bessemer
1. Speed production
2. Lower costs
3. Alter relations between the workers and management
Caused at the ex of “railroad Chinese”
Milner: Black Labor must be marshaled into the regimented productivity of factory settings rested upon how whites “managed” free Blacks
Bthamend loophole criminalize black life