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Balancing Capital and Labor Part I- The Industrialists The Gilded Age Balancing Capital and Labor Part I- The Industrialists

Tenement Life Crowded conditions Alcohol abuse High Mortality rates Few jobs Reformers see the problems of the slums, want to help

Exploiting the poor Machines used saloons as informal headquarters to get voters in poor precincts to support machine candidates.

Failed Reform- Dumbbell Tenements The Tenement House Act of 1879 was a response to an earlier law that had required windows in each room, but made no provision for outside space for the windows. James Ware’s award-winning design provided for airshafts for windows to open on to, while keeping buildings narrow for maximum profit. He also provided for indoor plumbing.

Overhead view of airshaft

Airshaft from street level

Why Does it Fail? Flawed architectural plan Flawed implementation Greed/corruption Fear of authority/fear of poverty

Part III: Unionization

Large disenfranchised population Labor Unites Industrialization Urbanization Immigration Leads to… Large disenfranchised population Populist Movement: First attempt of the people to reform capital and labor relationship.

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Labor Strikes Back Haymarket Affair Unions considered a threat to capitalism by business and government. Unionists considered anarchists and even communists. Haymarket Affair May 4, 1886 – Workers convene to protest police brutality at an earlier strike rally on May 1st (May Day). Rally turns violent after a bomb is thrown, police open fire on protesters Eight anarchists convicted even though evidence doesn’t support their involvement Becomes a rallying cry for unionists Pullman Strike 1894- National strike- public opinion against the strikers prevails

The Supreme Court Upholds Laissez-faire Lochner v. New York – 1905 New York state passed the “Bakeshop Act” limiting the hours a bakery employee could work in one week to 60. Lochner, a bakery owner, was fined for allowing employees to exceed limitation. He sued protesting the constitutionality of the law under the 14th Amendment and his liberty of contract. Supreme Court overturned his conviction stating: …this law interfered "with the right of contract between the employer and employees.“ To the Court, the right to buy and sell labor through contract was a "liberty of the individual" protected under the 14th amendment .