Industrialization and Workers
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Industrialization and Workers
Ch 6, Sec 3 & 4
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Factory Workers
• Boom in workforce mid to late 1800s.– Urbanization and large immigrant population.
• 10-12 hours/day, 6 days/week.• Paid by piecework – paid by number of
completed products.• Worked in sweatshops – long hours, low pay,
poor working conditions.
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• Efficiency studies by Frederick Winslow Taylor led to division of labor.– Production divided up into small parts, each
person does on part over and over.– Made businesses very efficient; low skill level, low
pay.• Few safety measures in factories; hot, loud,
dangerous.• Due to low pay, wives and children worked.– 1 in 5 kids aged 10-16 was employed.
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Unions and Strikes• 1890-Richest 9% of Americans held 75% of
wealth.– Led to resentment and anger.
• Many began to support philosophy of Socialism.– Public control of factors of production, not private.– Wealth should be spread evenly to all.
• Socialist ideas led to creation of labor unions.
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• Unions formed to help workers in hard times.– Changed to become a way for workers to give
demands to employers.• Higher pay, shorter hours, better conditions, etc.
• 1869, Knights of Labor union formed to organize all into single union.– Wanted equal pay for equal work (women,
minorities), 8-hour workday, no child labor.– Peaked at 700,00 members, then declined and
disappeared in 1890’s.
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• 1886, Samuel Gompers founded American Federation of Labor (AFL).– Craft Union – Only skilled workers in a network of
smaller unions, each devoted to a specific craft.• Wanted better wages, hours, conditions.• Used strikes, boycotts, collective bargaining.– Workers negotiate as a group with employers.
• AFL was very effective and successful.
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Samuel Gompers
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• 1877, railroad workers struck to protest wage cuts and unsafe conditions.– Destroyed railroad property, US president sent
troops to restore order.• Eugene V. Debs organized the American
Railway Union.– Industrial union – workers from all crafts in a
given industry.• Debs was opposed to violent strikes, preferred
peaceful protests.
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Eugene V. Debs
Industrial Union
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• Employers disliked and feared unions.• Tried to stop unions by:– Forbidding union meetings.– Firing union organizers.– Forcing new employees to sign contracts
promising not to join unions or strike.– Refusing to collectively bargain.– Refusing to recognize unions as workers’
representatives.
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• 1881-1900 – 24,000 strikes.• Haymarket Riot, 1886 – national protest for 8
hour workday led to strikes.– Chicago-fight between strikers and scabs led to
union protest in Haymarket Square.– Someone threw a bomb and killed cops, led to
open riot with dozens dead.– Knights of Labor blamed.– 4 anarchists hanged, 1 killed self, 3 let go.
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• Homestead Strike, 1892 – Carnegie’s partner Henry Clay Frick tried to cut wages at Homestead, Pennsylvania mill.– Led to huge strike.– Frick sent in Pinkertons to break strike; gunfight,
many killed.– Anarchist Alexander Berkman tried and failed to
kill Frick.• Public opinion turned against strikers.
– Strike ended against workers 3 months after start.
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Henry Clay Frick
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Alexander Berkman
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• Pullman Strike, 1894 – George Pullman built luxury railroad cars, and a town for his workers.– 1893, cut wages 25%, kept rent and food prices
same.– Caused local union to strike.
• Pullman shut down factory, refused to bargain.– ARU led nationwide Pullman strike, 260,000 workers.
• Blocked mail delivery, fed gov’t got involved.– Citing Sherman Anti-Trust Act, railroads got court
order to end strike, President Cleveland sent troops to enforce.
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George Pullman
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Strikers burned 600 boxcars.