A People's History of the U.S. & America

Tindall and Shi stand in awe at the accomplishments of the industrial giants, calling United States Steel Corporation "a marvel of the new century." They add:

Accompanying the spread of such industrial combinations was a rising standard of living for most people. If the rich were still getting richer, a lot of other people were at least better off. . . . "Upward mobility both from blue-collar to white-collar callings and from low-ranked to high-ranked manual jobs was quite common" (Tindall & Shi 791).

Tindall and Shi do admit that "disparities in the distribution of wealth" had not "disappeared" as a result of industrialization, and they take note of the dehumanization of the growth of industry. Nevertheless, they spend much more effort showing the advances that labor made during this period, as if such advances somehow negated the dehumanizing effects of the industrial process.

If Tindall and Shi seem reluctant to vigorously condemn industrialization's negative impact on human beings, Zinn shows no such reluctance:

In the year 1877, the signals were given for the rest of the century: the black would be pu

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Approximate Word count = 983
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)

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