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19th c. Post-War American Industrialization
THESIS STATEMENT AND OUTLINE FOR A PAPER ON AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION AFTER THE U.S. CIVIL WAR (1865-1920)
It is a truism that large-scale warfare tends to increase industrial production and innovation, and that societies benefit from this industrialization after the war is over. In America, the Civil War was followed by the economic prosperity of the Gilded Age -- I would like to argue that the chief effect of this prosperity was to cause new conflicts in American society, which had to be settled by reform rather than Civil War.
This paper will focus on three separate aspects of industrialization: (A) Child labor and other exploitative economic practices / (B) Economic instability / (C) Economic inequality. Aspect (A) will include discussions of child labor in the time period covered, and also discussions of the role played by economics in post-war racial issues (Jim Crow), the radicalization of various populations oppressed by the new economic climate, and the calls for reform. Aspect (B) will cover the financial...
And Aspect (C) will look at the politics of the Gilded Age.
The paper discusses five specific groups affected by industrialization:
(1) Child laborers: This portion of the paper will begin with a discussion Sarah Cleghorn's poem "The Golf Links" (about child labor in a context of unprecedented prosperity) and will examine the reform of child labor laws in the time period covered.
(2) Midwestern Agrarian populations: This portion of the paper will discuss the reaction of agrarian populations to financial panics in the later 19th century that were caused by increased stock market speculation. Include the discussion of the Populist movement, the free coinage of silver and William Jennings Bryan and Coin's Financial School, and White's "What's the Matter with Kansas?"
(3) Oligarchs and Politicians: Discuss the emergence in the later 19th century of the U.S. Senate as "Millionaires' Club," and the effect that industrialization had on promoting U.S. Imperialism. This will focus on George Hearst (plutocrat and U.S. Senator from California) and his son William Randolph Hearst (and his role in promoting McKinley's war with Spain, over the broad objections of many). A chief reference for this portion of the paper will be the book The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter, with a focus on his chapter "The Spoilsmen: An Age of Cynicism," with its examination of the negative effects had by…
Works Cited
Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition. New York: Vintage, 1989. Print.
Oshinsky, David. Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. New York: Free Press, 1997. Print.
White, William Allan. "What's the Matter with Kansas?" Emporia Gazette, 15 August 1896. Web. Accessed 2 February 2014 at: http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/whatsthematter.html
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