During the Industrial Revolution, production was valued above all else, including the needs of workers. Which excerpt from the section "sugar plantations as a blueprint for industrialization" BEST supports the idea above?
O One change was how Europeans thought of labor: the work done, and the workers who did it. The ways people worked were changing in big ways. This first happened in the Americas and later spread all over the world.
O We can see how work was changing by looking at the sugar industruy on the Caribbean islands and Brazil. Making sugar was a hot, noisy industry that required many workers. It had to stick to strict deadlines,
O Historians Kenneth Pomerantz and Steven Topik argue that the "scale, complexity and social organization of the sugar mills," made them the first modern factories. The sugar mills were a blueprint for other factory systems, they wrote.
O Once sugar cane was cut, it had to be processed quickly, or else it would rot. To do this, workers in the mills had to work around the clock. The mill was designed around one goal: to produce as much sugar as possible.