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The rise of industry in the U.S. allowed people to access and consume items/goods more than ever before. Big business turned America into a culture of consumers desperate for time-saving and leisure commodities, where people could find everything in shops or by mail.

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Produced ideas such as:
-  employee training
- implementing standardized best practices

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Immigrants, African Americans and women, skilled and unskilled individuals, etc.

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This is an image of several children working in a factory which represents the working class.

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The working class (also known as the labour class) is a group of people who have jobs in manual labour and industrial occupations who are given a wage or salary-based contracts.

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This was a labor union formed in 1886 in order to voice the working class. It fought against labor forces and work conditions with the use of strikes.

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This was the first labor organization in the United States that organized unskilled and skilled workers, campaigned for eight hour workdays, and hoped to form a cooperative society that laborers owned industries in which they worked.

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This is a theory that examines workflows in a goal of improving economic efficiency and labor productivity.

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Closing the door of the Stock Exchange on its members

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This was a financial crises that started an economic depression from 1837 to 1877. It started with a problem in europe when the stock market crashed as investors started to sell off the investments they had in American railroads.

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This video is a breakdown of the American Federation of Labor into a simple, understandable way.

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Taking part in the new consumer culture was a result of a slow emergence of a middle class along with increasing practice of buying on credit. This allowed consumers to buy without cash on hand as stores allowed people to open accounts and purchase on credit.