Speed Up, Stretch Out, Shut Up! Labor in Industrial America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009.

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Speed Up, Stretch Out, Shut Up! Labor in Industrial America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009

Cordwainer

“The Ten Footer” (1880)

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Children at Work in a Vegetable Cannery, 1912

“Bobbin Boys” at a Textile Mill, 1909

“Breaker Boys” at a Colliery, Late 19 th Century

Comparative Safety of British and American Railroad Workers, (Fatality Rates per Thousand Workers per Year) British railroad workers All causes British trainmen a All causes Coupling American Railroad workers All causes American trainmen All causes Coupling Braking b Source: Aldrich, Safety First, Table 1 and Great Britain Board of Trade, General Report.

Upton Sinclair

Chicago Saloons Early 20 th Century

“The Spark” (1877)

Terrance Powderly and the Knights of Labor

Haymarket Square 1886

Samuel Gompers 1900

Iron “Puddling”

Carnegie, The Hard Driver

Henry Clay Frick “Beehive” Coke Oven in Pennsylvania

“Making Bessemer Steel at Pittsburgh” (1886)

U.S. Steel

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