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12 Cards in this Set
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Private enterprise evolution
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1. Preindustrial
2. Industrial 3. Post Industrial |
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Preindustrial
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a. small;commerce home
b. 1770-1820 c. cities located at transportation sites d. Workforce:merchants, artisans and shopkeepers e.city function trading centers f. city gov:elites |
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Industrial
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a.large scale manufacturing near resources;go to city looking for work
b. 1820-1850 c. Economy is expanding d. Business was immobile becasue it was near waterways; labor intensive d. Workforce:factory owners, artisans, managers, unskilled e.city: site of industrial resources;staging area f. gov: formal mass participation |
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Post industrial
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technological advancements like the airplane, computer.. locate away from work
* market decline in city; less crime; less congested a. 1960 - b. Economy:commerce, services c. Workforce: corporation owners, managers, professors, service laborers d. city function: commercial center; dumping ground e. city gov: elite dominate Bureaucracy b/c dg Periodic unrest |
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Historical Forces
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a. push pull phenomenon
b. Transportation of technology: RR created cities, many gateway cities Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit c. Metropolization more people live in urban areas but in dispersed areas Fueled by: automobile: mass ownership New tech able to afford cars (assembly line) Fed government : FHA; VA loans; 1956 Highway act |
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Crisis in Public Services
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Impact from people coming (many did not have any skills)
different languages Unarm religion Irish took most of the menial jobs |
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Pecking order in Boston
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Wasp
German European Jews Irsih/ Italian Black |
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Crisis in PS
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1. Confrontation between natives and immigrants
2. Tensions between workers and employees 3. Pathologies in ghettos The more pop of ethnic group, the more they live close together Social ills, sanitation skills; bureaucracies respond |
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Tocqueville
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no great city in America (1830)
Wrote democracy in America Lowest people are Irish and AA Though many people benefit; also a bias |
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American Protective League
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formed organization as a response to immigrants
organized assaults fight for laws that passed restrictions on immigrants |
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Series of depressions iin 1870
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under capitalized bus; went bankrupt
recession also brought tension among workers 1880-1920 : labor frontation industrial warfare -20k strike 1886 Hay Market Ghettos also suffering: infrastructure bad; came to city with breaking epidemics /violence |
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Waterworks 1807
Crime |
First in 20th c to actually see improvement in disease
riots forced cities to first form law enforcement agencies |
