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"What does labor want? We want
more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more
learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice
and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate
our better natures,”
Samuel Gompers
Age of Progress
Industrial
Revolution
1563-1908 AD
"Industrial
Revolution
A dramatic change in the ways people
earned money and made goods that
began in England around the mid-1800s. People went from making
goods in their own homes with simple tools to making them in
large-scale factories with complicated machinery. As a result,
many rural regions became more urban as cities grew rapidly
around the new industrial activity.
Source:
Ecohealth
