The Ford Motor Company was a place ahead of its time in the early 1900s especially with pushing work equality, however, by the 1930s and 40s, these factors began to change.
Project Topics: Industrialization and Labor
The 1943 Race Riot
The 1943 Detroit race riot was one of the biggest racial conflicts that occurred in the U.S. in the first half of the 20th century, and it was primarily caused by deep-seated systemic racism and unequal housing and job opportunities in wartime Detroit. Shortly after the turn of the century, Detroit experienced a significant population […]
Fordism: Detroit and the Birth of Mass Production
With the rise of mass production in the early 20th century, the Ford Motor Company created an item and a concept that would change the modern world forever.
The Rise and Fall of the Knights of Labor in Chicago
A brief chronicling of the life of a gilded age social movement in Chicago
Chicago’s Eight-Hour Movement of 1886
The campaign for an eight-hour work day began in 1867 and continued into 1890. The movement leaders used social Christianity to different degrees to gain support form the working class, and adjusted their ideological framework as the campaign progressed.
Chicago’s Influence on Jazz Music
Jazz music began in New Orleans, Louisiana. The musical genre has roots in European traditions, blues, and ragtime. It also derives from work songs sung by slaves on southern plantations. Jazz was not a popular musical genre until the 20th century when African Americans moved to Chicago during the Great Migration to escape the Jim […]
Factors Behind the Chicago Race Riots of 1919
This project looks at the major contributing factors that led up to the Chicago Race Riots during the “Red Summer” of 1919.
Forged By Fire – Chicago’s Industrial Growth Following the Great Fire
Since the year 1871, the city of Chicago has never been the same. The fire that shook the entire world ushered Chicago into a new era. Due to the city’s detailed face-lift in architecture and new industrial perspective, Chicago rose above the ashes to take its position in the United States as the golden […]
Pullman: A Company Town in an Industrial Age
The company town of Pullman was built in response to industrialization in the United States in the 19th century.
The Creation of Early Childhood Intervention
Influences to the Creation of Early Childhood Intervention in Chicago Early Child Intervention began in the 1870s, when Americans began to open free child care centers for the poor. They did this as a means to save the impoverished children from falling into the same patterns of misfortunate as their parents. The centers were places […]
