This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...E. G. Otis (1852); and the Corliss engine (1850). These and many other less striking innovations changed the entire nature of American domestic and industrial life in the 50 years from 1820 to 1870. The revolution wrought in domestic life has been frequently described and need not here be mentioned. For this discussion ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...E. G. Otis (1852); and the Corliss engine (1850). These and many other less striking innovations changed the entire nature of American domestic and industrial life in the 50 years from 1820 to 1870. The revolution wrought in domestic life has been frequently described and need not here be mentioned. For this discussion the important changes were those wrought in the distribution of the workers among the various " gainful occupations of benefit to themselves and to the commonwealth." These changes are shown in the following table: The above figures show clearly the acceleration which the railroads and the reaper produced in the industrial reorganization of the country. In the 20 years prior to 1840 the drift away from agriculture into other pursuits had been taking place at the rate of 2.75 per 1,000 per year. But in the next 30 years this drift was nearly four times as great. More than half of those who sought other occupations than agriculture during this period are classified in 1870 in the personal service group--domestic servants, hotel keepers, waiters, laundresses, nurses, barbers, bootblacks, and the like--a striking proof of the changes produced by machinery in the habits of domestic life. The majority of the other half entered the rapidly developing fields of manufacture, trade, and transportation. Since 1870 the proportion of the workers engaged in the personal service group has remained constant, and the drift from agriculture to commerce and manufactures has continued at a constant average yearly rate. In other words, the general outlines of the industrial reorganization were determined before 1870. Since then the material progress of the Nation has consisted in the gradual perfection, sublimation, intensification, and expansion of the...
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