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What do you do when your war material factory loses all of its customers? Make the factory even  bigger. ...Well that sounds ridiculous, but somehow it actually worked. Let's find out why.

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00:03

Northern factory owners made Bank selling to the Union Army [Man with lots of cash beside cannons]

00:07

during the Civil War so after that big bloody windfall was over the factory

00:11

guys were looking for new markets they needed a group bigger than the

00:15

government a group that wasn't used to buying lots of new items for cheap and

00:19

would go gaga for the latest thing but who who could that group be who us so we [Lady Gaga appears]

00:25

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

00:30

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

00:34

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

00:38

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

00:42

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

00:47

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

00:51

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

00:55

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

00:59

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

01:05

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

01:09

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

01:13

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

01:18

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

01:22

back during the first Industrial Revolution only women and young girls

01:26

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

01:30

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

01:34

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

01:38

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

01:42

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

01:47

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

01:51

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

01:55

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

01:59

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

02:04

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

02:09

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

02:13

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

02:18

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

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