W ARM U P 4/15 Drop off your warm-up sheet from last week and pick up a warm-up sheet for this week. Wait for further instructions.

W ARM U P 4/15 Which group(s) of people do you think you’re going to find working in factories? Poor, unskilled immigrants Women Children

R EVIEW Big business owners were often called robber barons because their workers worked __________ hours for ___________ pay

W HO ARE THE WORKERS ? Immigrants Coming over during the Third Wave!! Low education level Low skill level—given a specific job and that was it!

W HO ARE THE WORKERS ? Women Which economic class do you think women industrial workers fell under? Paid less than men Some women were paid as little as $6 a week Mostly unskilled or semi-skilled labor

W HO ARE THE WORKERS ? Children Why children? Even if both parents worked, a typical poor family could barely survive on two incomes Help support family Cheap labor Both young boys and girls Child labor laws (if the state has them at all) often ignored

W ORKING C ONDITIONS Sweatshops = poorly ventilated, small factories where employees work long hours under poor conditions for low wages Often worked six days a week 10+ hours a day! Work = repetitive & boring Often just given one task that they have to repeatedly complete throughout the day

W ORKING C ONDITIONS Dangerous environment! Slippery floors, spinning blades, chances of dysfunctional machinery Worker safety not a major concern Complaining = lose your job!

W ORKING C ONDITIONS By early 1900s: ~35,000 workers killed 500,000 injured

L ET ’ S L EARN M ORE ABOUT W OMEN L ABOR … Among The GirlsLife in the Shop

C HILD L ABOR Let’s look at some primary sources on child labor during the industrial period…

D EAR D IARY … W RITE A DIARY ENTRY IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF EITHER A WOMAN OR CHILD LABOR WORKER DURING THE INDUSTRIAL PERIOD. N O SHORTER THAN 8 SENTENCES !!

C LOSER Write two new facts that you learned in today’s lesson about the working conditions during the industrial period in America.