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Speed Up, Stretch Out, Shut Up! Labor in Industrial America. TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009. Cordwainer. “The Ten Footer” (1880). Frederick Winslow Taylor. Children at Work in a Vegetable Cannery, 1912. “Bobbin Boys” at a Textile Mill, 1909.
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Speed Up, Stretch Out, Shut Up! Labor in Industrial America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009
Comparative Safety of British and American Railroad Workers, 1889 - 1901(Fatality Rates per Thousand Workers per Year) Source: Aldrich, Safety First, Table 1 and Great Britain Board of Trade, General Report.
Chicago Saloons Early 20th Century
Terrance Powderly and the Knights of Labor
Haymarket Square 1886
Samuel Gompers 1900
Henry Clay Frick “Beehive” Coke Oven in Pennsylvania
“Making Bessemer Steel at Pittsburgh” (1886)