UAPP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Meat Industry, Lyndon B. Johnson, Urban Renewal
22 Feb 2018
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Events of 19th and 20th century that have formed and deteriorated american cities including the urban crisis. Private and public sector influences on urban policy. Industrial rev, mechanized production ( mass production), mechanized transportation (steam. Freed slaves were offered opportunities from someone who would buy them land and they worked People sent to the south to convince share croppers that there was more opportunities up north, better pay etc. Shortage of labor turns to surplus of labor. More people that want to work than jobs provided. Work conditions were bad, pay was low (bc of surplus, labor is cheap) Chicago meat industry had a surplus of minority labor, Upton sinclair s the jungle- horrific details, resulted in the clean food and drug act passed 1906, exploitation of labor. Men were hired more often for manual labor. Automated ones, so eventually didn"t take much effort, so hired women, paid them much less.
