The Sweat of Their Brow: Occupations in the 1800s (Daily Life in America in the 1800s)

by Zachary Chastain

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America in the 1800s was a very hard-working society. Early in the century, farmers, craftsmen, and housewives worked very much the way they had for centuries-by their own physical labor and "the sweat of their brow." The growing industrial economy brought millions of workers-people leaving their farms and new immigrants-into the factories and workshops of America, where the work was hard, the hours were long, and the pay was low. Women and children made up a large percentage of the industrial workforce, and conditions were often miserable and dangerous. Meanwhile, a small class of industrialists built vast fortunes. As...Read more
  • ISBN10 1422296822
  • ISBN13 9781422296820
  • Publish Date 29 September 2014 (first published 1 September 2009)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Start Publishing
  • Imprint Mason Crest
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 64
  • Language English