Industrial Expansion in the United States, 1939-1947

1952 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 128 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Alexander
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Expansion

scholarly journals Divisions of Labor: The Splintered Geography of Labor Markets and Movements in Industrializing America, 1790–1930

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (S1) ◽  
pp. 5-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carville Earle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Labor History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Wage Determination ◽  
Industrial Expansion ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Geographical Scale

Among the various methodological prescriptions of Anthony Giddens, perhaps the most useful for labor history are his advisories on social change, on the anxieties and tensions attending a society's transition from one geographical scale to another. Labor's experience in the United States offers a case in point. The nation's transformation from a preindustrial to an industrial society entailed, in addition to the inexorables of accelerated urbanization, industrial expansion, and market extension, certain fundamental changes in the conditions of labor. Industrialization restructured the geography of labor markets, revised principles of wage determination, fomented sectarian division in the ranks of labor, and soured the relations between labor and capital. These structural changes led, in turn, to the inevitable responses of, among others, worker combination, protest, industrial violence, and a splintering in the ranks of labor.

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