The technological innovations and the influx of immigrants in the nineteenth century affected industrial workers' work conditions and their lifestyles. Job security changed for the Americans. With the influx of immigrants, high-paying jobs became scarce and resentment twoards immigrants grew. Technology also turned workers into pieces of the Industrial Machine. They were now dispensable, and replaced quickly by immigrant workers.
More and more Americans, faced with a choice between the uncertain life of farming and the prospect of more certain industrial employment, chose certainty and flocked to cities and towns to find work. …
