The Effects of Industrialization and Urbanization on Women in North America
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13/01/11 12:21 AM Industrialization First occurred in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Occurred in Canada in the 1850?s, accelerating in the 1870?s and 1880?s Very ragged and uneven process Included A shift from making products in the home or in small workshops to making them in factories A move from making things by hand to the use of machines to assist in the production of goods The subdivision of formerly skilled labour in which a product which had once been made by one worker with all the skills necessary to make the entire product was now being made by many workers, each with very limited skills, doing only one piece of the job- such as sewing buttons or ironing a finished garment
