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Speed Up, Stretch Out, Shut Up! Labor in Industrial America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009.

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1 Speed Up, Stretch Out, Shut Up! Labor in Industrial America TAH Osceola County 19 September 2009

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4 Cordwainer

5 “The Ten Footer” (1880)

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7 Frederick Winslow Taylor

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9 Children at Work in a Vegetable Cannery, 1912

10 “Bobbin Boys” at a Textile Mill, 1909

11 “Breaker Boys” at a Colliery, Late 19 th Century

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13 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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15 Upton Sinclair

16 Chicago Saloons Early 20 th Century

17 “The Spark” (1877)

18 Terrance Powderly and the Knights of Labor

19 Haymarket Square 1886

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21 Samuel Gompers 1900

22 Iron “Puddling”

23 Carnegie, The Hard Driver

24 Henry Clay Frick “Beehive” Coke Oven in Pennsylvania

25 “Making Bessemer Steel at Pittsburgh” (1886)

26 U.S. Steel

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