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Industrialization and Social Reformers

...... The trade unions were a product of industrialization and the factory age. As businesses began to be able to mass produce and distribute and to therefore amass staggering revenues, the relationship between employer and employee changed dramatically. No longer was an apprentice-master relationship a close relationship, almost familial. Now the employer did not live near his business and he no longer saw his workers as a part of his business. They were now a part of his cost of doing business (Ibid. at 61). As a result, the employer could never pay too little in wage and the employees could never be paid enough. Not surprisingly, there were over a dozen major labor strikes between 1786 and 1816 as this evolution developed (Ibid.)
The development of cities teeming with factory workers, and other workers who could more closely identify with factory workers than with factory owners, created a fervent center of support and sympathy for aggrieved workers (Ibid. at 113). As these support networks became bigger and more organized, they began to assume a political presence and by the end of the nineteenth century managed to garner political clout in many major cities throughout the United States (Ibid.)......