... shoemakers. Nevertheless, as technology improved, women's fingers were found inadequate to the demand, and sewing machines soon transformed the old-fashioned shoe-binder into a new and more expensive class of "machine girls" whose capacity for labor was only limited by the capabilities of the machines over which they presided. The cutting of the soles, which was a slow process requiring the expenditure ... was so subdivided that a man was not considered a machinist at all. As a result of the division and subdivision, a man made just a particular part of a machine and did not know anythi...

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... background moved into the slums and established settlement houses. Reformers attacked corruption in municipal government and formed nonpartisan leagues to defeat the well-established bosses and their political machines. However, urban reformers were often frustrated because state legislatures, controlled by railroads and large corporations, obstructed the municipal struggle for home rule. The Reformers turned to state politics, where progressivism reached its ... ...

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... in which the American economy not only enjoyed spectacular growth but developed new forms of organization. It was a time in which American popular culture reshaped itself to reflect the increasingly urban, industrial, consumer-oriented society of the United States. And it was a decade in which American government experimented with new approaches to public policy. That was why contemporaries liked to refer ... ...

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... on Labor and Capital (Document D) that 100 men are able to do the work that it took 300-400 men to do in the past, as the work to create a machine is subdivided. With a shrinking number of jobs and a growing number of working classmen, and as metal gradually replaced muscle, labor unions were the most necessary, but were not strong enough ... ...

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