7th Grade Monday = Tuesday = Wednesday = Thursday = Friday = Notes # 8 Industrial Workers Part 1: The Workers Suffer. Child Laborers: Life in the factories Essay (15 points). Notes # 8 Industrial Workers Part 2: The Unions. Finish Notes # 8 Part 2: The Unions. + worksheet. Quiz

Notes # 8 Industrial Workers Part 1: The Workers Suffer

With Growth Comes PAIN!!! Thanks to the Industrial Revolution things could be made quicker, cheaper, and more people could get jobs.

What could go wrong? Discuss with the person next to you, what could go wrong with so many factories hiring so many people?

Going Wrong Factories became bigger, more people, more crowded, less personal. Many factory workers were cheap labor. Most were immigrants and so could be hired to do a job with little pay for long hours. Women were even payed less. Many worked 10 to 12 hours, Monday through Saturday. Could be fire at any time, there were a lot of workers waiting to replace them.

Worker Conditions There was very little safety regulations. Many jobs were dangerous, crowed, with long hours and very few breaks. Many of these places were called “Sweatshops” for they were not safe places to work.

Example: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 1911 in N.Y. City

Child Labor Many families had to send their children to work in factories to help feed the family. Many jobs looked to higher children for they could be paid less. They could also fit into smaller spaces in the machines. http://mentalfloss.com/article/30248/depressing-stories- behind-20-vintage-child-labor-pictures

7th Grade Monday = Tuesday = Wednesday = Thursday = Friday = Notes # 8 Industrial Workers Part 1: The Workers Suffer. Child Laborers: Life in the factories Essay (15 points). Notes # 8 Industrial Workers Part 2: The Unions. Finish Notes # 8 Part 2: The Unions. + worksheet. Quiz.

Notes # 8 Industrial Workers Part 2: The Unions

What was life like for Industrial Workers? Take a minute to discuss with your partner.

Change – The Unions Workers started to form groups – unions- to protest working conditions and the little pay. Started of as Trade Unions – as in a specific trade, like all miners, would get together. However, Trade Unions were to small, miners are separated from the factory workers, which are separated from the farm workers.

Big Time Unions In the 1880s a Trade Union called the Knights of Labor became a large Union be accepting other workers. They accepted women, African Americans, skilled and unskilled laborers. It grew to around 700,000 members. But it soon declined after only a few years in power due to negative public opinion.

Union Power The main power of a Union is to organize a “strike”, which means that the workers would stop working until the owners followed their demands. Strikes could be deadly. Police, even the military could be called in. Sometime the strikers would even riot and burn down buildings and even the factories they worked in. This would sometimes be negative for the Unions in public opinion. To break the strikes, the factories would higher Strikebreakers (scab), other workers who would be happy to take the strikers place in the factory.

Unions gain Power American Federation of Labor (AFL) Started in 1881. Led by Samuel Gompers Wanted higher wages for workers Shorter hours for workers Better working conditions Right to Collective Bargaining (To have a Union represent the rights of workers when dealing with owners.)