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What questions do you have? Warm Up How did Adam Smith change the modern world with his “invisible hand” theory? What questions do you have? Division of labor Specialization

Haymarket bomb explosion

Homestead Strike

What did the laborers want? Better pay More reasonable working hours Safer work conditions

Facts and posters. Laborers arise! Form into groups of three. Put one chair on the inside. 1.Great railroad strike 2. Knights of Labor 3. Haymarket Riot 4. Homestead Strike 5. AFL 6. Women Front of classroom 6 1 5 2 4 3

What was the normal relationship between workers and factory owners during the second industrial revolution? long hours. little safety. low wages. Managers fired workers for protesting or even organizing. Owners wanted laborers to be completely dependent on the business, not on each other.

How did BIG BUSINESS control labor? They made workers sign contracts promising not to join a union. They kept a list of workers who were pro-union. They used lockouts to keep union workers out of the workplace. They hired strikebreakers to take the jobs of striking workers.

What unions did laborers form to balance out the fight? Knights of Labor formed in 1869. They supported negotiation and arbitration to resolve differences. Samuel Gompers formed the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1886. The AFL focused on negotiation and became country’s leading union. Labor unions relied on “collective bargaining”—unions negotiated for workers as a group.

What effect did Marx and Engels have when they emerged on the world stage around 1850? They caused laborers to think about their condition. They made everyone think about the role of the capitalists. They suggested that war was a continual state between the business owners and the workers.

Marx and Engels Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels, 1848 “Proletarians of all countries, Unite!” Das Kapital, Marx, 1867–1883 Eliminate private property. Class warfare.

Marx video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc&t=416s Capitalism video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIuaW9YWqEU

What was the relationship between the United States labor unions and the Marxist movement in Europe? “[Monied] power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win through the ballot box; if not, we will resort to sterner means. A little bloodletting is sometimes ncessary in desperate cases.” William Sylvis to Karl Marx in 1869

Warm Up How is immigration linked to labor unions? How did one lead to the other?

Sit Down, Shut Up, and WORK. Write your thoughts on these rules. Classes can extend beyond school hours. • Lunch periods are 5 minutes. • All tests are unannounced. • Student council is prohibited. • Any absence results in grade loss. • Protest results in expulsion.