美国第二次工业革命英语课堂作业精读.ppt

Introduction to the second industrial revolution Breaker Boys at Woodward Coal Mining, 1900 Older ways of life also wilted in the heat of the factory furnaces. The very concept of time was revolutionized. Rural American migrants and peasant European immigrants, used to living by the languid clock of nature, now had to regiment their lives by the factory whistle. The seemingly arbitrary discipline of industrial labor did not come easily and sometimes had to be forcibly taught. Introduction to the second industrial revolution One large corporation simultaneously instructed its Po