Progressive Era, Industrial City
Progressive Era, Industrial City The employers of the industrial city took advantage of the growth of population, and exploited the migration of immigrants moving to the cities looking for work, along with the fact that there were no regulations to keep the businesses in check at the same time the growth of the city was so fast and the lack of education on sanitation, life for the immigrant was dirty and difficult. For example; in New York City 1870-1920, population grew from 942,292 to 5,620,040 with the percentages: Austria-Hungary 8%, Russia 8%, Italy 6%, England 6%, Ireland 30%, Germany 33%, and Other Foreign 9%. (Rise of the Industrial City: New Places, New Peoples) With such a growth and the need for workers along with the need for employment, businessmen took advantage of this to fuel their greed at the cost of people’s quality of life and health. There are eight basic categories that these affected; Income and Wealth, Child Labor, Working Conditions, Public Health and Length of Life, Rise of the Middle Class, Working Class Families, The Role of Women, and The conditions of living. So, what were the conditions of this time period, and what affects did they have, just how much of a role in this period did women have, and what kind of role did women have in causing there to be changes. The growth of the industrial era caused the growth of the city; the growth of the city had fueled the industrial era to explode with growth, and over population of foreign countries that did not have the economy nor the opportunities for employment along with poor leadership. America was a growing country in industry and wanted cheap labor, the immigrant was the simple/easy answer to the greed of the business of industry. The growth of the city outpaced the ability for the local offices to extend the ability to provide proper garbage collection, clean water, and proper sewage systems in the poorer areas of the city; this caused the deterioration of the conditions.