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Labor Unions

Labor Unions. Organizations representing workers’ interests. Early 1800’s British workers started to organize first labor unions. They organized strikes, or work stoppages. Labor Unions legalized in 1871 in Great Britain

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Labor Unions

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  1. Labor Unions • Organizations representing workers’ interests. • Early 1800’s British workers started to organize first labor unions. • They organized strikes, or work stoppages. • Labor Unions legalized in 1871 in Great Britain • American workers began to organize and developed the first labor union in the mid-1800’s

  2. People were economically encouraging laissez faire approach to governments involvement in business Competing Economic Views • Socialism – the idea that society or • government, instead of • individuals, should own • property and control industry

  3. Karl Marx – wrote the CommunistManifesto Communism – The idea that government owns almost all the means of production and controls the economic planning.

  4. Effects on Society • Rise of new economic ideas • Shift away from cottage industries • Home life and the roles of women • Standard of living increases

  5. Advances in Technology • Electric Power • Edison’s Light bulb Advances in Transportation • Steam-Powered Trains • Bessemer Process • Steamships • Automobile – Henry Ford • Airplane - Wilbur and Orville Wright

  6. Advances in Communication Telegraph- Samuel Morse Telephone- Alexander Graham Bell Radio- Guglielmo Marconi

  7. New Ideas in Science Evolution- Charles Darwin Medical Brakthroughs Pasteurization- Louis Pasteur

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