Chapter 12: Industry and the North, 1790s-1840s
The market revolution transformed American life and work. Traditional, preindustrial ways of work gave way to the discipline and regularity of the factory. More women and children entered the workforce as unskilled labor eroded the skilled trades. The new conditions fostered labor unrest. Family life was also altered as a new class structure developed, especially in the middle class. Religion and new intellectual currents arose to meet the changing conditions.
