Industrialization in the Gilded Age

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Analyze the ways in which farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age (1865-1900)
NOTE–Your essay’s response should focus on the workers & farmers and how they were effected by rapid industrialization in the late 1800s. The essay should NOT examine the “Robber Barons” or big Industrialists themselves!
NOTE (more)—In order to answer this question using historical facts, you could employ:
P. Scott Corbett, US History (https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/preface) Chapters 17-20
Locke, The American Yawp https://www.americanyawp.com/ (Chapters 16-18)
the weekly video excerpts are imbedded within the “History 17: Week 1” module Link
Kolasa’s lecture notes: “West, IR (Industrial Revolution) and Urbanism”
 
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Hazards governance in practical terms

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PROMPT-Gerber (2020) Download Gerber (2020)provides a way of thinking about hazards governance in practical terms of how communities collectively make decisions over the production of public goods, including efforts at risk reduction and resilience capacity promotion.
In your view, what is most helpful about Gerber’s (2020) attempt to define and explain the idea of governance?
According to Gerber (2020) what is critical to understanding how key public goods are produced?
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Disaster governance in 2012

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PROMPT-Tierney (2012) Download Tierney (2012) offers a comprehensive assessment of the knowledge base on disaster governance in 2012.
How does Tierney (2012) define governance in the context of hazards and disasters?
How do scale, networks, and capabilities affect disaster governance and governance regimes according to Tierney (2012)?
Would you say that Tierney (2012) is are over-stating or under-stating the challenges for governing disasters and risk reduction?
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Governance in a less flattering light

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PROMPT-While Tierney (2012) offers a fairly neutral assessment, Ahrens and Rudolph (2006) Download Ahrens and Rudolph (2006) discuss governance in a less flattering light: they argue that poor institutional arrangements and poor governance lead to ineffective risk reduction and poor disaster management.
How do you assess the Ahrens and Rudolph argument – including how they think bad governance can be overcome?
Would you say they are over-stating or under-stating the challenges for governing disasters and risk reduction?
Does what Tierney (2012) have to say about hazards governance suggest the Ahrens and Rudolph (2006) argument is fairly accurate or inaccurate — and
why?
 
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