jan 13, 1880 - Industrialization in the 1800s
Description:
-Assembly line production began to take hold when Eli Whitney developed interchangeable parts, but was at a grander scale with Ford's plants in the early 1900s-required workers to perform a single task over and over for 12-14 hours a day (before labor reforms)
-factories were incredibly dangerous; 500,000 injuries to workers per year
-lowered the price of living
Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 13, 1880
Now
~ 145 years ago