How did a market economy affect American life?

The Market Revolution affected the lives of workers by giving them jobs. It did bring them from skilled labor to cheap labor though. Their lives started revolving around the clock as they began having to work a certain amount of hours everyday. The number of immigrants increased, also. There were far more immigrants in the North than in the South because there were more job opportunities.

The market revolution therefore not only transformed the economy, it changed the nature of the American family. As the market revolution thrust workers into new systems of production, it redefined gender roles. The market integrated families into a new cash economy