l2 organized labor
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• Pretend you are a child laborer working in a factory in 1905. Write a description of what you SEE, SMELL, HEAR, TOUCH and FEEL as you work.
Hello! Today is 11/14/13
What we’re going to do today
Agenda– Warm Up– Investigation: Working Conditions – Labor vs. The Company – Closure: What would you do?
By the end of class, you will be able to describe the working conditions in factories during Industrialization and explain how workers organized to fight for reform.
By the end of class, you will be able to describe the working conditions in factories during Industrialization and explain how workers organized to fight for reform.
Homework & Announcements
* Take out your agenda!
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. . . to think like a historian.
What were working conditions like during
Industrialization?
What were working conditions like during
Industrialization?
During Industrialization, working in a factory. . . During Industrialization, working in a factory. . .
Name: Period:
SCHNIDER – U.S. History II
Thinking like a HistorianWhat were working conditions like during Industrialization?
Source A: Taping Coils, Westinghouse Works (Video)
B: Steel Worker in Mill as molten steel spills from vat (Image)
C: The Bitter Cry of Children by John Spargo (Text)
What evidence do you see or read that will help you answer the historical question?
What can we learn from this image: What were working conditions like during Industrialization?
During Industrialization, working in a factory. . .
During Industrialization, working in a factory. .
During Industrialization, working in a factory. .
B: Steel Worker in
Mill as molten steel spills from
vat (Image)
C: The Bitter Cry of
Children by John
Spargo (Text & Images)
Labor vs. The Company
THE COMPANY• What they wanted:
• How they fought for it
LABOR• What they wanted:
• How they fought for it: VS. VS.
Name: Period:
SCHNIDER – U.S. History IILabor Reform
Unions: A group of workers that unite to fight for better working
conditions and pay
Unions: A group of workers that unite to fight for better working
conditions and pay
Labor: How did they fight?VS. VS.
Example: American Federation of Labor
Strike: When workers refuse to work (stop working) as a form of
protest
Strike: When workers refuse to work (stop working) as a form of
protest
Labor: How did they fight?VS. VS.
Labor: How did they fight?
Union LabelUnion Label
Boycott: asking consumers not to buy goods from a
business that is mistreating workers
Boycott: asking consumers not to buy goods from a
business that is mistreating workers
VS. VS.
Labor: How did they fight?
Picketing: marching outside a company's property to stop
others from entering
Picketing: marching outside a company's property to stop
others from entering
VS. VS.
Lock Out: when a company stops work (which means no
pay for the workers); an employer-forced strike
Lock Out: when a company stops work (which means no
pay for the workers); an employer-forced strike
The Company: How did they fight?VS. VS.
Strikebreakers: people who work during a strike, called
“scabs” by the union
Strikebreakers: people who work during a strike, called
“scabs” by the union
The Company: How did they fight?VS. VS.
• strikebreakers Private police: officers hired by the company to enforce
company rules
Private police: officers hired by the company to enforce
company rules
The Company: How did they fight?VS. VS.
Example: Homestead Strike of 1892
• Background– Working conditions– Carnegie & Frick
• How did it end?
• If you were working in a factory or mine in the late 1800s, would you join a union? Why or why not?
What would you do?What would you do?