What do you judge to be the most negative consequences of American industrialization in the late nineteenth century? Explain your choices. Who do you think “lost” the most in this economic transformation? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER
Consider: loss of quality craftsmanship; depersonalization of the relationship between ownership/management and labor, and between producer and consumer; uprooting of people; decline of agriculture; exploitation of workers; monotony of the assembly line process; concentration and maldistribution of great wealth; loss of individual independence, etc.
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