Gilded Age: A Comparative Analysis

It is believed that time is everlasting and where one life ends another begins. For as long as mankind has existed on Earth, it has been made known that each individual has their very own brains, which sends the clear message that everyone has their own mindsets and interpretation on how they choose to perceive life. Everyone is one and the same but they also have the natural ability to be the change,becoming the different that the world needs. There will never be true unification from the human race because it is in human nature to shape one’s own path to make a distinct mark whether it be visible or hidden. But it is a always worth a shot to obtain unity in the most troubling times. It is believed that during the era of the Gilded Age, both

Because of this, the initial first response to this from the people in mainly city areas supported this because to them this meant more income from the overload of new job openings. Also this helped a large quantity of foreigners to take a liking to the increasing large amount of economic opportunities, which would lead to rapid urbanization, but they would soon find out that companies would only hire them for cheap labor because most likely they were not a legal citizen if they desired to work as fast as they could so that they had the ability to provide food on the table for their families. But that soon would become an issue because many of the workers for the industries were not paid enough especially for the amount of time they were sacrificing. As time kept ticking so did the industrial workers life line. The hardest part for the people who had these types of jobs was that there was a large amount of labor involved with very little pay and it wasn’t just men who worked these jobs, it was women and children 3 years old and up. A very important of example of what the life was like in industrialization within the Gilded Age was the Cotton Mills Girls… “I was eleven years old when I went to work in the mill. They learnt me to knit. Well, I was so little that they had to build me a box to get up

because they both at first did not see industrialization as a threat to the economy, but as time passed and innovation and demand increased, they both saw the corruption and issues that must be resolved in order to achieve a stable economy. They both depended on some sort of organization that needed to possess the support of a political leader or reforms that can be the change they both so desperately desire. The farmers wanted someone to speak out for them as they were continually being ignored this was similar response and feelings the industrial workers felt toward the way United States stood at the time. The both sought to destroy monopolies and their corruptive,abusive ways, they fought for the justice that they deemed needed to be served. This era has been a way for the progressive era to finally make those changes, the Gilded Age was set up for what was yet to come to life. This was the industrial workers chance to get the hard work they have committed their whole lives to finally rewarded. It gave them purpose to actually live their lives that they had no idea they were destined for, while it gave farmers a voice a brain, a new perspective from the world’s view that the earth would not sustain without them, as well for politics it gave them the the idea that if they listen to their needs of the people