Shoe Industrialization In The 1800s Essay

Shoe Industrialization 1800s The shoe industrialization in the city of Lynn changed very much the way people used to live. Was the industrialization process in the shoe factory during 1800s good or bad? I 'll be analyzing the details in a photograph of a group young folks, who were caught in the middle of a busy shift, and where they are all together sharing a small workplace, to shed light on how the photographer wanted us to think about working in Lynn 's shoe factories, and what we can say about that work. As Abby Battis, assistant director of the Lynn Museum, stated, "Shoemaking started in Lynn in 1623, years before the city of Lynn was founded in 1629” (Battis). From 1623 to 1840, there were no factories. The shoes were hand craft, made by artisans. The crafting of shoes started inside of their homes and soon moved to a 10 ' X 10 ' shoe shop just outside of their homes, in the back yard, called "Ten Footer” (Mulligan, 14) The job was mostly done by a man, head of the family business, but also helped by their wives and especially by their kids. This knowledge was passed from generation to generation. The family played an important …show more content…
Machine operatives were highly specialized, rarely venturing outside their own workroom and generally unable to take it over a different machine without the same training require of a new employee. Material moved quickly through the factory from one process to another” (Mulligan, 74). Analyzing the photo “lasting room in a shoe factory,” the photographer, does not focus in one situation or one person, instead, he prefers to take the total environment, the big picture. By not putting anyone right at the middle so we can have a feeling of crowdedness in the room. With that, he emphasizes the dirty faces, dirty and unorganized room to show us how busy and demanding it was a shoe