6.10: Development of the Middle Class

Question 1

DEVELOPMENT OF MIDDLE CLASS

Answer 1

• Business conduction changed
• Large corps divided into Executives, Managers and Laborers
• Managers didn’t do manual labor kept daily operations going
• Managers = white-collar workers
• Managers meant accountants, legal services, healthcare and lots of clerical workers
• Men and women in above roles
• Typewriter meant thousands of women into industry
• Teaching = female
• Earned more than working class but less than upper
• Higher wages and shorting working days than working class

Question 2

LEISURE TIME

Answer 2

• Middle Class
• Coney Island NY = largest US theme park with newest tech [coasters and lights]
• P.T. Barnam’s Circuses
• Baseball and American Football

Question 3

PHILANTHROPY

Answer 3

• Upper Class
• Carnegie
• Allowed some to experience middle class
• More just and equitable future desired
• Desired reducing societal gap between rich and poor
• Believed hard work = wealth
• No handouts
• Only using money to create opportunities for poor to better themselves
• Invested into cultural institutions
• Hearst believed poor deserved same education