A new industrial order arose in the late nineteenth century. Machine-driven productivity, mass manufacturing, nationwide marketing, and factory workers replaced the old market economy of farmers, local merchants, and small factory owners. A new network of industrial systems linked the economy as never before. New business strategies and structures coordinated and controlled it, and workers struggled to adjust. In response, labor also began to organize, establishing a pattern that would persist throughout the twentieth century. The new industrial order changed life in America and launched the United States as a major world economic power.