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Rise of Organized Labor

Rise of Organized Labor. Assembly lines create more ___________ Assembly lines create more ___________ Assembly lines get work done faster… NOW there’s a “mad dash” to see which companies will make MORE products FASTER. Rise of Organized Labor.

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Rise of Organized Labor

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  1. Rise of Organized Labor • Assembly lines create more ___________ • Assembly lines create more ___________ • Assembly lines get work done faster… NOW there’s a “mad dash” to see which companies will make MORE products FASTER

  2. Rise of Organized Labor ______________ begin to take over the jobs people had performed in the past • Example: converters could mix metals, cook them at right tem, produce perfect steel • A growing sense of powerlessness leads workers to join together in UNIONS

  3. New Workplace WHAT IS A PUDDLER?: ________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Before: small factories, family owned, very personal, good wages • By 1802: • Large, crowded factories • No personal relationships • Low wages (skills easily replaced by machines)

  4. ___________________: workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay begin to crop up. Most workers were young women & children

  5. Children - _________________children under 15 working in sweatshops - Textile mills, tobacco factories, garment sweatshops, coal mines - No school or rest = _______________________________________________________ • Vicious cycle (what was our “vicious cycle” during Reconstruction?)

  6. Hazards • Lung damaging dust • _________________ • Gas explosions • Molten metal spills • Health problems & _______________ • 195 die in Pittsburgh in one year alone

  7. Organized Labor Many workers unhappy with conditions & find ways to fight back • _________________________ • _________________________ • Informal – organized by workers in individual factories • Pushed for better conditions, but most failed (unorganized) I’m not being treated well!!! My lungs are bleedinggg!

  8. Knights of Labor Knights of Labor: 1869 an American labor organization to protect the rights of workers • Elected Terence Powderly as president • He opens membership to • __________________ • African Americans • __________________ • Unskilled workers

  9. Rallies in Favor of • __________________ • End to child labor • Equal pay for men and women • Workers and employers share ownership & profits • 1885: ___________ people join KOL

  10. Haymarket Square • Workers at McCormick Harvester Co. in _____________ go on strike • (not-endorsed by KOL) • McCormick (like many others) hired ___________________: replacements for striking workers • May 3, 1886: workers clash with strikebreakers outside the factory • Police open fire, 4 workers killed

  11. Haymarket Square • Next day thousands gather to protest killings, rally led by anarchists: __________________________________________________________________________________ • Bomb goes off & kills 7 policemen

  12. Haymarket Square 8 anarchists arrested for part in Haymarket Riot: labor rally in Chicago in 1886 that ended in violence when ______________________________________ • 4 men were tried, convicted & hanged with no proof • Many Americans linked unions to dangerous anarchists • Result: ____________________________________

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