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Sources of Labor Weakness• Expanding Industrial

economy• Under-representation• Shifting labor force

The Struggle to Unionize• National Labor Union• Gender Politics• “Molly Maguires”

Knights of LaborAmerican Federation of LaborGreat Railroad StrikeThe Homestead StrikeThe Pullman Strike

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“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

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Radical critiques of capitalist system

• Socialist gains– Eugene V. Debs– Reform via elections– 1900 had 100,000 voters– 1904 had 400,000– 1912 had 1 million• 1,200 gained office in 350 towns• Victor Berger’s “gas and water socialism”

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Third Parties

• 2 parties since 1852• Goals of Third Parties• Third-Party Peak in 1912• Other examples– 1924 & 1948 (Progressives twice & Dixiecrats)– 1968: Segregationists– 1992: Bush I, Perot, Clinton– 2000: Bush II, Nader, Gore

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/candidates.phtml

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• Militant direct action– Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) – “Wobblies”– formed by William “Big Bill” Haywood, Debs, Mother

Jones– Single union for all workers

• Social network for migratory workers in West– Abolition of “wage slave” system– General strike instead of political action

• Ludlow, Colorado• Lawrence, Mass.• Paterson, NJ• 1917 timber strike in northwest

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcirod0wI5A 3 mins– (Lectures in History Preview: Socialism in America)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0y4lcB7ukQ 4:50– (Eugene Debs: American Revolutionary)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8SsFkSdG_s&feature=related 4:50 (inappropriate sex joke 1:20 – 1:30)

– (Bill Maher Demystifies Socialism)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVKt250MO4 5:35– (Bill Maher: NFL Socialism)

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SREaI1aa_FQ 0:12 – 2:25– (Heaven on Earth: Rise and Fall of Socialism Part 1, Seg 3) NO LONGER WORKS

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Glqa-LqF_E 3:20 – 7:45– (Heaven on Earth: Rise and Fall of Socialism Part 1, Seg 5) NO LONGER WORKS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc2-0UvUp7E 0:10 – 2:38(Heaven on Earth: Rise and Fall of Socialism Part 1, Seg 6) NO LONGER WORKS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyJii4wRWY&feature=relmfu 6:30(Socialism vs. Capitalism ) NO LONGER WORKS