History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1251 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Working Class
Captions available
The idea
Industrialisation created a new class of wage workers with its own culture and neighbourhoods, who benefited least from it.
In practice
Workers continuing to live what the anchor calls an often precarious existence.
Where people slip
They suffered greatly during economic slumps such as the Panic of eighteen nineteen, taught in entry 1223.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for History of the United States I