For many, such as the Lithuanian immigrant quoted above, the industrial era meant a movement from farm to factory; it also meant faster transportation, bigger buildings, more crowded cities, and more fluid populations. (Introduction: "I Felt Everything Get Bigger and Go Quicker Every Day")

The rise of the modern city is perhaps the most significant social and economic transformation of the industrial era.

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Daily life in the Industrial age was ever-changing, unsettling, outright dangerous, and often thrilling. Electric power turned night into day, cities swelled with immigrants from the countryside and from Europe, and great factories belched smoke and beat unnatural rhythms while turning out consumer goods at an astonishing pace. Distance and time condensed as rail travel and telegraph lines tied the vast United States together as never before.

First-hand accounts from workers, housewives, and children help illuminate the significant achievements of the era and their impact on the everyday lives of ordinary people. Readers will learn of a broad range of personal experiences, while comprehending the importance of the economic and social developments of the period. A chronology, a glossary, more than 40 photographs, and further reading sources complete the work.

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