Rise of Organized Labor
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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
______________ 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
Rise of Organized Labor
New Workplace– Before: small factories, family owned, very personal,
good wages– By 1802:• Large, crowded factories• No personal relationships• Low wages (skills easily replaced by machines)
WHAT IS A PUDDLER?:__________________________________________________________________
______________________________
___________________: workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay begin to crop up. Most workers were young women & children
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?)
Hazards
»Lung damaging dust»_________________»Gas explosions»Molten metal spills»Health problems & _______________• 195 die in Pittsburgh in one year
alone
Organized LaborMany 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!
Knights of LaborKnights 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
Rallies in Favor of
• __________________• End to child labor• Equal pay for men and women•Workers and employers share
ownership & profits• 1885: ___________ people join KOL
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
• Next day thousands gather to protest killings, rally led by anarchists: __________________________________________________________________________________–Bomb goes off & kills 7 policemen
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: ____________________________________
Haymarket Square