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Labor Unions Fight Back!

Labor Unions Fight Back!. Tuesday Warm-Up. Begin completing your vocabulary and essential question from your Unit 5 syllabus. You have 10 minutes If you are finished, begin reviewing your old syllabus for your mid-term. Conditions of the Worker. Working conditions—unsanitary, dangerous

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Labor Unions Fight Back!

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  1. Labor Unions Fight Back!

  2. Tuesday Warm-Up • Begin completing your vocabulary and essential question from your Unit 5 syllabus. • You have 10 minutes • If you are finished, begin reviewing your old syllabus for your mid-term

  3. Conditions of the Worker • Working conditions—unsanitary, dangerous • Wages—too low • Hours—too long, 14 hour days • Child Labor—no school, cruelty (low pay, long hours)

  4. The Changing American Labor Force

  5. Child Labor - Early 1800s: ages 7-12 made up 1/3 of workforce in US factories - 1848: Pennsylvania establishes age of 12 to work in silk, cotton, wool mills - 1853: Many states adopt 10 hr. workday for children - 1900: 1/5 of all American children were employed - 1924: Congress prohibits labor under 18

  6. Child Labor

  7. “Galley Labor”

  8. Rise of Labor Unions • It was under these conditions that labor unions arose. • Unions are organizations of workers formed to protect their rights

  9. Trade Unions vs. Craft Unions • Craft Unions- open to people with a particular skill like carpentry or masonry • Trade Union- open to less skilled workers. trade craft

  10. The Knights of Labor • A Giant union that organized trade and craft unions into one powerful force. • They were the first integrated union and they included African Americans

  11. American Federation of Labor (AFL) • Union led by Samuel Gompers • Used strikes to force companies to give better wages, hours, and working conditions

  12. Bosses Respond to Unions • Yellow-Dog Contracts: Employers require that workers sign a contract promising not to strike to get hired • Blacklist: Bosses would prevent workers who went on strike from getting another job • Scabs: Workers who were hired to take the place of striking workers

  13. STRIKES!!! • With your group read about your strike and right down what happened and a once sentence significance. • Be ready to share this with the class. • Homestead Strike: Pg. 453 • The Great Strike: Pg. 453 • The Haymarket Affair: Pg. 453 • The Pullman Strike: Pg. 454

  14. The Socialists • Socialists believe that the means of production should be owned by the workers, not the rich minority

  15. Eugene V. Debs • Organized American Railway Union • He was a Socialist • Ran for President many times • Ran for President from prison and received millions of votes.

  16. International Workers of the World (“Wobblies”)

  17. “Big Bill” Haywood of theIWW • Violence was justified to overthrow capitalism.

  18. The Hand That Will Rule the World One Big Union

  19. Mother Jones: “The Miner’s Angel” • Mary Harris. • Organizer for theUnited MineWorkers. • Founded the SocialDemocratic Party in 1898. • 1903, led 80 mill children to home of T. Roosevelt demanding child labor laws.

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