“Mass production and business consolidations spawned giant corporations that monopolized nearly every sector of the U.S. economy in the decades after the Civil War.” I think this sentence from the book summarizes the economy of post war America. Many great things came from industrialization but it caused problems for your every day working americans. They struggled to make ends meet and their working condition didn’t help. They were treated like inter changeable parts by their employers. The lower class worked sixty hour weeks. The wages were so low that their annual income fell below the poverty line. Because they were struggling so bad wives and children had to join the work force. Multiple strikes broke out across the country because
