Updates - Eastern Greene Schools · Updates •4.3 NTSG due Fri., ... unions. ù Mediated disputes...
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Updates • 4.3 NTSG due Fri., Quiz Fri.
• I am grading DBQs – Hope to be done by next Monday
– Roof is leaking, so we’ll see…
• Research Project due Tues., Sept. 30 – Format is your choice
– Must involve primary and secondary sources
– Any topic from these sections, or another topic from 1870-1900
with my approval
4.1, 4.2
4.3
5.1, 5.2
6.2, 6.3
7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Should employers be required
to pay a “living wage”?
• No – Businesses exists to make money for their owners, they are
not charities
– Low-paying jobs give low-skill workers a chance to have a job
– Employees are free to seek other opportunities by improving
their skills
• Yes – Low-paying jobs create a cycle of poverty that affects more
than the worker him/herself
– It is unfair to punish low-skilled people with an inferior quality
of life
– There is enough wealth for everyone who can hold a job to
earn a “living wage”
• Choose a side
• If You Chose “No”: – How can a full-time, minimum wage worker making ~$18,000
afford to give their children better opportunities than he/she has?
– If the role of business is NOT to provide a “decent” quality of life
to its employees, then what should fill that role?
• If You Chose “Yes”: – Why are businesses responsible for offering Americans a good
life? Why not families, the community, government, churches,
and charities?
– Why shouldn’t pay be linked to skill?
Management vs. Labor
“Tools” of
Management
“Tools” of
Labor
“scabs”
P. R. campaign
Pinkertons
lockout
blacklisting
yellow-dog contracts
court injunctions
open shop
boycotts
informational
picketing
sympathy
demonstrations
closed shops
organized
strikes
“wildcat” strikes
Goals of the Knights of
Labor ù Eight-hour workday.
ù Workers’ cooperatives.
ù Worker-owned factories.
ù Abolition of child and prison labor.
ù Increased circulation of greenbacks.
ù Equal pay for men and women.
ù Safety codes in the workplace.
ù Prohibition of contract foreign labor.
ù Abolition of the National Bank.
How the AF of L
Would Help the Workers
ù Catered to the skilled worker.
ù Represented workers in matters of
national legislation.
ù Maintained a national strike fund.
ù Evangelized the cause of unionism.
ù Prevented disputes among the many craft
unions.
ù Mediated disputes between management
and labor.
ù Pushed for closed shops.
Homestead Steel Strike
(1892)
The Amalgamated
Association of
Iron & Steel Workers
Homestead Steel
Works
President Grover Cleveland
“If it takes the entire army and navy to
deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card
will be delivered!”