Kipling visited Chicago just as new industrial modes of production revolutionized the United States.
At the highlight of a city adjusting to the industrial revolution and with an increase of workers from immigration, Kipling would have seen how the changes will effect the world with this example.
Industries offered low-paying jobs but also opportunity for rural poor who could no longer sustain themselves through subsistence farming. Men, women, and children all moved into wage work. At the turn of the twentieth century, nearly one fourth of southern mill workers were children aged six to sixteen.
The growth of sweatshops and child labor all to support the family and feed the growing machine of capitalism. Making the young work and paying them pennies on the dollar.
As one booster put it, “the West is purely a railroad enterprise.”
For ease of access to the west and supplies and mail to the people there, Railroads were essential!
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