Timeline

1600–1899 ∼ The Apprenticeship Era

Apprenticeship or formal education is required for professional training (1600s–1820s) / Federal census surveys occupations for the first time (1810) / Wealth is regarded as a sign of virtue (1800s) / Factories employ entire families of immigrants (1820s–1830s) / Decline of the apprenticeship system (1820–1860) / Census shows great increase in the types of occupations (1850) / Widespread use of child labor (1870) / Railroads first to accomplish managerial revolution with professional managers (1880s) / Farming is the largest occupation (1880–1920)

MILESTONES: Eli Whitney invents interchangeable parts, making mass production possible (early 1800s) • Gold rush in California and the West (1848–1860) • Bessemer steel process invented (1850s) • Thomas Edison invents the phonograph (1876) and motion picture (1888) • First funeral chapel built in the U.S. (1885)

1900–1929 ∼ Emergence of Women in the Workplace

Percentage of women in clerical positions rises from 34 percent in 1910 to 49 percent in 1930 / Mass migration...