Over a number of years in the eighties, Amish people from towns in Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Plain City, Ohio, and Georgia, were interviewed and data was collected. It was found that slowly but surly social change amongst the Amish communities was occurring. Amish are being pressured towards modernization by american capitalist values such as maximum efficiency, quality control by standardization, and most of all competion. It difficult for small Amish farmers to compete with factory farms and large agri-businesses, when their beliefs and values do not allow them access to the necessary resources, and strongly discourage competition for it leads to pride. But in order to survive the Amish are cautiously making minor changes, such as allowing the use of tractors, as long as the wheels are steel not rubber to limit mobility.
They struggle for stature, growth, and fair wages within their jobs. There are many cultures where men are the main sources of income while the women only attended to household chores and children. Not that long ago americans raised their families in the same manner. With the changing of generations, came the changes in who american’s reared their families. If we take a step back in time (roughly 60 years ago) families worked hard, and tended to the home as though it were a job as well.
Noel Hawkins Michelle Jones AP world history 7/24/13 Chapter Three Around 3200 b.c. egalitarian villages to big for socially stratified cities were made possible by an intensification of agriculture in which part of the population produced more food than was needed for its own subsistence. This surplus food could sustain everyone so not everyone had to be a farmer anymore. In uruk and other parts of the world a ruling elite would distribute the food. This made intensification which divide the rich and the poor: rulers and farmers.
However, most of these technological innovations were not within the grasp of the average farmer; only wealthy farmers could afford to own things such as the wheat harvester and the number of horses it took to pull it (Document D). Railroads extended throughout the United States and connected the East and Western markets (Document B), but farmers did not make good profits because of the high railroad rates that were in effect. Even though farmers fought for and were successful in establishing limited freight rates (Document C), they still had to deal with many other problems. Due to overproduction, farmers everywhere suffered from the decrease of their crop prices (Document A). All of these technological advances were made with the intention of helping farmers and improving their working conditions, but instead, they backfired and made things even worse than before.
Assumptions: Existence of adequate number of farmers whose needs remained unaddressed till then. Absence of organized retail supply chain in urban areas till mid 1920’s. Emergence of middle class who were eager to buy high end products, but at a reasonable price. Revenue model: Profits from volume sales of products at retail outlets, which were produced at their own manufacturing units. Profits from huge sales in the untapped rural markets.
Male Dominant Society The book Bread Givers has a lot of obvious themes throughout it; however I think the theme of males being seen as more important and more powerful than women stands out the most. As the daughters Bessie, Mashah, Fania, and Sara grow up in a poor household, they are burdened with the responsibility of making money to support each other and their parents. They are responsible for making money for food, necessities, and also for paying rent. Although their father doesn’t work, he put all of the pressure on his daughters especially during the time that they couldn’t find jobs and continued to demand to receive their wages. Their father spent most of his time praying and studying the Torah and wanted to find his daughters
Essay Questions 1. There are several differences between the industrial society and the postindustrial society. Within the industrial society, new types of technology were introduced in order to mass produce goods needed for the economy to grow. Steam transportation was used in order to send their goods to further locals than ever before. They utilized fossil fuel to increase the rate and scale of their production lines, even though over time this would eventually decrease the need for human labor.
The extended families worked together for production and to support each other until industrialisation began and referring back to Item B, the nuclear family became popular because it led to greater geographical mobility which means they will lose contact with the extended kin. They chose to work for a wage and the left the extended family so this shows that industrialisation has benefited the nuclear family.
Serfs who for centuries had worked the land for little or not pay, suddenly began to demand higher wages and, increasingly, revolted against a nobility that sought to work them for lower wages of the past. Social Effects - The greatest social impact of the plague was that the rigid feudal system, in place in Europe for a thousand years, was dismantled. Feudalism was based on the nobility controlling land and the peasants who worked it. With immense labor shortages, serfs were free to leave the lands of the lords to seek higher wages. Additionally, land that had traditionally been the primary source of wealth was now worthless.
They had to find a solution to their lack of economy stimulation. The extensive labor required to tend to the plantations and farms, and work in the trade and shipbuilding industry became a major problem. This brought up the place of “indentured servants” who came to the colonies as a house or plantation worker then after five to seven years they would be freed by their masters. During this time race was not the main deciding factor on if you were a servant or not but it was your place in the world and how much money you had that was the deciding factor. This form of workers didn’t always go as planned though because of rebellions, wars, and and many other mishaps.