Author Question: How did the American working class change during the first half of the nineteenth century? What ... (Read 74 times)

sheilaspns · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

The British author that criticized American policy in Vietnam in the book The Quiet American was

a. Graham Greene.
b. Nathalie Sarraute.
c. Albert Camus.
d. Samuel Beckett.
e. Francis Bacon.

Question 2

How did the American working class change during the first half of the nineteenth century?

What will be an ideal response?

steff9894 · **Reply #1 on:** Sep 12, 2019

Answer 1

a

Answer 2

Students should recognize several elements. First, there was a significant number of female workers, especially in the textile industry. Second, there was a growing number of immigrant workers. Finally (and this point may elude many students), workers no longer had the same kind of relationships with their employers. Rather than being apprentices or journeymen who lived in the households of their employers, under their parental eyes, they had an unprecedented degree of autonomy. This, of course, meant that employers were no longer obliged to look out for their workers, thus, permitting some of the most truly degrading conditions in American history.