8Y 01-28-2016 Thursday Industrial Workers Objective: Describe the rise of labor unions as a response to the declining work conditions in America during the late 1800s. Agenda: Do Now: 19.2 Section 2 Quiz – on paper. Open book. Ch 19.3 Lesson – Industrial Workers Exit Ticket

19.3 Industrial Workers Big Idea: Changes in the workplace led to a rise in labor unions and workers’ strikes. Main Ideas: The desire to maximize profits and become more efficient led to poor working conditions. Workers began to organize and demand improvement in working conditions and pay. Labor strikes often turned violent and failed to accomplish their goals.

Machines and specialization’s impact on workers 1. The desire to maximize profits and become more efficient led to poor working conditions. Machines and specialization’s impact on workers specialization: trained to do one small, specific part of a bigger job. Lowered the quality of jobs, but there are more jobs. Workers are easily replaceable. Lowers pay. Boring, repetitive job where you can get easily injured. Machines – replace workers. Fredrick W. Taylor - efficiency engineer – workers are like interchangeable parts – can do any job and can be easily replaced if they don’t work.

2. Workers began to organize and demand improvement in working conditions and pay.    Knights of Labor – 8 hour work day, equal pay for equal work, end child labor. Allowed membership to skilled and unskilled workers. Leader: Terence V. Powderly    American Federation of Labor- led by Samuel Gompers. Better work conditions, better work hours, better pay. Only allowed skilled workers. Became bigger than the Knights of Labor by the 1890s. Specialized.   collective bargaining – all workers acting collectively or together.

3. Labor strikes often turned violent and failed to accomplish their goals. Haymarket Riot – May 1886 – in Chicago. Protest for an 8 hour work day. 2 Strikers killed. When people gathered to protest the next day, they were bombed and shot at by police. Over 100 were wounded. Homestead Strike Pullman Strike

End Child Labor http://www. history End Child Labor http://www.history.com/topics/labor/videos/the-fight-to-end-child-labor Homestead Strike http://www.history.com/topics/andrew-carnegie/videos/andrew-carnegie-and-the-homestead-strike Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike

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Exit Ticket What was the overall impact of labor unions in the late 1800s?