Business Signature sheets due Quiz: Wednesday Sept 14 20, points No writing portion

Industrial Revolution in the US Write an editorial about the Gilded Age written by: The owner of a large corporation A poor worker (miner, assembly line worker, etc)

How did industry affect workers’ lives? How and why did they resist harsh treatment?

Labor issues Conditions Danger Pay Workers vs bosses Child Labor Women

Unions What is a union? Why have them? A group of people who represent an industry Speak/act on behalf of workers Why have them? Collective bargaining power

Unions in Gilded Age 2 basic types of workers: Craft workers- have special skills / training Common laborers- have few skills Craft workers begin to form trade unions Iron workers, shoemakers

Opposition to unions Employers had to negotiate Workers had skills that were needed Companies tried to stop workers from unionizing: Required workers to take oaths Hired detectives to find organizers Created blacklist Lockouts

strikes What is a strike? Why would workers do this? Employees refusing to work Why would workers do this?

Strikes in Gilded age Great Railroad Strike Wages cut and workers walked off the job Spread across the country 2/3 of America’s railways Militias called in, violence erupted Result- 100 dead, $10 million damage

Strikes in the gilded age 1902 Coal Strike 140,000 miners went on strike and made demands 5 months in, coal reserves ran low Roosevelt called both sides to negotiate Result: Led to a compromise When a strike threatens public welfare, federal government must intervene

Turning point- Triangle Shirtwaist factory NYC garment factory Employed hundreds of immigrants Mostly young women who worked 9-hour days and 7-hour Saturdays

Triangle Shirtwaist fire March 25, 1911 4:40pm A scrap bin with two months’ cuttings catches fire on eighth floor No way of contacting ninth floor

Video clips Watch the selected clips and answer the questions on the sheet

Make your own strike poster Choose an industry Create a poster for a strike of workers from that industry What do they want?