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Child #1

Child #1. Where is this child? List any clues. Describe any tools that you see. Describe the clothing. What do their clothes revel about their work conditions? What do you think their job is?. Child #2. Where is this child? List any clues. Describe any tools that you see.

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Child #1

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  1. Child #1 • Where is this child? List any clues. • Describe any tools that you see. • Describe the clothing. What do their clothes revel about their work conditions? • What do you think their job is?

  2. Child #2 • Where is this child? List any clues. • Describe any tools that you see. • Describe the clothing. What do their clothes revel about their work conditions? • What do you think their job is?

  3. Child #3 • Where is this child? List any clues. • Describe any tools that you see. • Describe the clothing. What do their clothes revel about their work conditions? • What do you think their job is?

  4. Child #4 • Where is this child? List any clues. • Describe any tools that you see. • Describe the clothing. What do their clothes revel about their work conditions? • What do you think their job is?

  5. Working in the New Industrial America

  6. Child Labor • Children between the ages of 6-16 • Variety of jobs • Railroads, mines, factories • Conditions • Low wages • 14-16 hr. days • Unsafe conditions • 3 of every 10 children working in mines would not reach the age of 15

  7. Female Labor • Conditions • Unsafe • Many injuries that left permanetey injured • Sexest • Women had little say or control in their work conditions • Wages and hours could literally depend on sexual favors • Rape and sexual harassment the norm

  8. Conditions • Long hours • Machinery • Factories • Hot • No windows • No safety standards at all • No regulations • Managers/Foreman • Aggressive • Uncaring • quotas

  9. Why do it? • Need for money • Immigrant workers • Many unaware of rights they had • Easily replaced • Assembly line work • Menial work • Always someone else willing to do the work • Thousands of immigrants looking for work

  10. Scientific Management • Theory by Fredrick Taylor • Also known as “Taylorism” • Idea: Make work more… • Efficient • Quicker • Interchangeable • Anyone can do it which means everyone is expendable

  11. Henry Ford • Perfected Taylorismvia the Assembly line • Each person had a job to do as the car moved down the line • Increased production • 1908 first model left the line • By 1910 a car was coming off the line every 3 minutes • 1927 the 15th million and final Model T came off the line • Idea adopted by every major industry in America

  12. Upton Sinclair • Born in 1878 • A Socialist and muckraker • “The Jungle” is published in 1906 • Meant to expose conditions of immigrants and workers • Subtext was the conditions of Chicago’s meat packing industry

  13. Conditions • Sinclair worked at a meat plant in 1904 • Undercover • Conditions • Workers • Injuries • Food • Rotten passed off as ok • Rats

  14. Results • Theodore Roosevelt • President of the US • Read book • Discounted it • Socialist • Sent out investigators • Results confirmed Sinclair’s accounts • Laws • Pure Food and Drug Act • Proper labeling of food • Meat Inspection Act • USDA

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