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Speed Up, Stretch Out, Shut Up! Labor in Industrial America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009
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Cordwainer
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“The Ten Footer” (1880)
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Frederick Winslow Taylor
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Children at Work in a Vegetable Cannery, 1912
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“Bobbin Boys” at a Textile Mill, 1909
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“Breaker Boys” at a Colliery, Late 19 th Century
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Comparative Safety of British and American Railroad Workers, 1889 - 1901 (Fatality Rates per Thousand Workers per Year) 188918951901 British railroad workers All causes 1.140.950.89 British trainmen a All causes 4.263.222.21 Coupling0.940.830.74 American Railroad workers All causes 2.672.312.50 American trainmen All causes 8.526.457.35 Coupling1.731.200.78 Braking b 3.252.442.03 Source: Aldrich, Safety First, Table 1 and Great Britain Board of Trade, General Report.
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Upton Sinclair
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Chicago Saloons Early 20 th Century
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“The Spark” (1877)
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Terrance Powderly and the Knights of Labor
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Haymarket Square 1886
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Samuel Gompers 1900
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Iron “Puddling”
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Carnegie, The Hard Driver
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Henry Clay Frick “Beehive” Coke Oven in Pennsylvania
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“Making Bessemer Steel at Pittsburgh” (1886)
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U.S. Steel
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