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EARLY INDUSTRIALISM IN AMERICA

This research paper discusses the factors which caused the Industrial Revolution to take root in the United States in the early 19th Century. The cited works by Cochran and Dobson take somewhat different approaches to this collection of phenomena. Cochran stresses the complex interaction among a variety of factors and Dobson their historical evolution. Together, they suggest that many factors were involved, especially various non-material factors such as social, cultural and technological factors as well as geography and natural resources. Any discussion of the causes of the course of industrialization in any society such as those which have recently developed economically at a rapid rate like Japan in the late 19th century and the tiger economies of East Asia in the late 20th century must take such factors into account within their particular national contexts.

Pre-Conditions to Industrialization

The civilizations that rapidly industrialized in the early 19th century all possessed certain favorable combinations of material resources and in particular rich agricultural land and adequate deposits of fuels and minerals, such as iron and coal deposits, to power and sustain the substitution of machine for hand labor. Later, Japan which lacks many of these elements, rapidly industrialized due in large part to its ability under strong national leadership to make effective use of imported ideas and techniques of organization. Some of the countries of East Asia which also lack much in the way of natural resources such as Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan have reached or surpassed the takeoff phase in industrialization without much in the way of natural resources while others such as India or China which appear to possess such resources in abundance have developed more unevenly.

Dobson describes industrialization in America as "a process of gradual evolution" (65). Sustained industrialization began to occur after the War of 1812 a...

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