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Labor Strikes

Labor Strikes. Fixing labor conditions and the Progressive movement. Labor Strikes. By the end of the 19 th century, many workers belonged to these labor unions Unions started to argue vocally for change and encouraged workers to join. Labor Strikes.

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Labor Strikes

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  1. Labor Strikes Fixing labor conditions and the Progressive movement

  2. Labor Strikes • By the end of the 19th century, many workers belonged to these labor unions • Unions started to argue vocally for change and encouraged workers to join

  3. Labor Strikes • Some things that organized labor fought for included: • 8 hour work day • Better wages • Better conditions • More gov’t involvement

  4. Labor Strikes • What happened when organized labor couldn’t negotiate with business owners on a better work life? • Strike!!

  5. Labor Strikes • If bargaining failed, labor unions often used strikes, or work stoppages to achieve their goals • The strikes in the late 1800s started peacefully, but eventually turned violent (riots) • The owners often called on gov’t troops to put down the strikes

  6. Labor Strikes • Some of the most famous strikes included: • Page 130 (2007) The Great Railway Strike The Haymarket Riot The Homestead Strike The Pullman Strike

  7. Great Railway Strike • Video

  8. Haymarket Riot

  9. Homestead Strike Video

  10. Pullman Strike

  11. Labor Strikes The way that workers strike today is a direct result of the workers from the industrialization era

  12. Labor Strikes

  13. Progressive Era 1900-1920 • By 1900, things begin to change in America and for the next 20 years, we enter the “Progressive Era” • Americans began to react to the working conditions by working for change

  14. Progressive Era 1900-1920 • These reformers were known as Progressives • These progressives had different methods for achieving change instead of strikes • They used the gov’t heavily, and Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson started programs to help them

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