U.S. History 1877-Present 3: Second Industrial Revolution

put the mass in mass production mass consumption and mass marketing but not

the Mastiff that's just a dog the business got big by shelling to the [A mastiff dog appears]

public there wasn't any more making our own shoes and candles on the weekend

instead everybody went to a factory to make money to buy shoes and candles made [Men approach shoe factory]

in a factory and this was called the Second Industrial Revolution selling to

the masses meant production had to be super-sized it was like the factories

all ate one of those Super Mario mushroom more and more railway lines [Mario mushroom eaten by factory]

were built to haul raw goods to factories and finished goods to stores

the raw materials never ran out we had a whole giant West to exploit for oil coal [Oil machine working]

wood minerals you know all that stuff source got bigger more and more food was

grown and processed and sold in more and more different kinds of products like [Combine harvester in a field]

cornflakes yeah cornflakes as factories grew they needed more workers in so

cities grew too it was the funny thing about those new workers they were men [Man flying in the sky]

back during the first Industrial Revolution only women and young girls

were thought to be weak and powerless enough to get bossed around by a machine [Girl working in factory]

but once men saw the money they could make well they started taking over the

factory job while women still worked in the textile mills because they won't

making cloth was considered wussy work meanwhile the men were busy in Manly

factories like steel mills it was fine for women to die when their skirts got [Man working in steel mill]

pulled into a weaving machine but not fine for women to die falling into the [Woman appears from steel furnace]

furnace of a steel mill nice to see that everybody had their priorities right

there yeah well soon factories were gender segregated men worked in certain

industries like steel and in industries where both men and women worked they

were kept separate as manufacturing came to symbolize big business and big strong

America women were mostly supposed to a work in traditionally female [Woman working on clothing]

industries like textiles or B work in the new department stores selling soft

to other women like extremely painful looking undergarment [Women browsing for clothing]