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Unit VI – A Growing America

Unit VI – A Growing America. Chapter 19 Section 3 – Industrial Workers Lecture Stations. Industrial Workers. The Big Idea Changes in the workplace led to a rise in labor unions and workers’ strikes. Main Ideas

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Unit VI – A Growing America

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  1. Unit VI – A Growing America Chapter 19Section 3 – Industrial Workers Lecture Stations

  2. Industrial Workers • The Big Idea • Changes in the workplace led to a rise in labor unions and workers’ strikes. • Main Ideas • The desire to maximize profits and become more efficient led to poor working conditions. • Workers began to organize and demand improvements in working conditions and pay. • Labor strikes often turned violent and failed to accomplish their goals.

  3. Main Idea 1:The desire to maximize profits and become more efficient led to poor working conditions. • Several factors led to a decline in the quality of working conditions in the late 1800s. • Frederick W. Taylor, an efficiency expert, published The Principles of Scientific Management in 1909.

  4. Maximizing Profits and Efficiency • Why did factories focus on specialization? • How did machines lead to a decrease in jobs?

  5. Poor Working Conditions

  6. Workers begin to Organize

  7. Trade Unions • 1842- Commonwealth v. Hunt-. • 1866- National Labor Union-.

  8. Main Idea 2: Workers began to organize and demand improvements in working conditions and pay. Knights of Labor • American Federation of Labor • collective bargaining

  9. Trade Unions • 1869- Noble Order of the Knights of Labor

  10. Craft Unions • American Federation of Labor

  11. Workers Organize • What were two important labor unions in the late 1800’s? • Why did collective bargaining give workers a greater chance of success?

  12. Main Idea 3: Labor strikes often turned violent and failed to accomplish their goals. • Haymarket Riot Homestead Strike Pullman Strike

  13. Labor Strikes • What were union members protesting during the Homestead Strike? • Did the Haymarket Riot help or hurt the labor movement? • Do you think strikes are an effective and appropriate way to handle labor disputes?

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