1. Changes In The Way We Work: Power to People

2. Sweatshops
Those who were immigrating over to the United States sometimes found jobs in sweatshops
Sweatshops: hot, crowded, dangerous factories
Their pay would be about $10 a week

3. As Products Got Better, Working Conditions Got Worse
Less Pay for Workers & Unsafe Working Conditions 
Dull & Repetitive Job (risking injury)
No Days Off & HR Workdays (no sick days either)
Cheaper Products & Cost of Delivery
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Faster Production (so we have MORE stuff!)
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No Shortages in Supplies $$

4. The Power of the People
Unhappy with working conditions workers begin to organize and form Labor Unions
Labor unions: formed to improve working conditions, and assist to bargain for better wages
Early Unions:
Knights of Labor: this was a loose federation of workers from different trades & unlike order unions they allowed women. After 1878 they would also allow African Americans.
Major concerns of unions during this time of mass immigration was that new immigrants would take their jobs

5. American Federation of Labor
1886, Samuel Gompers helped form the AFL
Used to achieve goals
Negotiations
Strikes
Boycotts
1.7 million members by 1904
AFL had success, but national labor conflicts grew more bitter

6. Children! To Work! Now!
Employers weren’t concerned about children forming Unions or Striking
Employers could force children to work long hours
Employers could justify paying children low pay

7. The Most Dangerous Woman in America...

8. Mother Jones Moved to Chicago, started dressmaking business
Became effective labor leader who organized meetings, gave speeches and helped strikers
Her mission was to get children OUT of factories & IN to schools

9. Haymarket Affair
1886, Chicago industrial workers striking for an 8 hour work day.
Police attempt to break up a peaceful meeting
A bomb is thrown into the police ranks
Police open fire
Workers return fire
Seven police officers killed, unknown number of workers killed
Bomber never identified
On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing. The Haymarket Riot was viewed a setback for the organized labor movement in America, which was fighting for such rights as the eight-hour workday. At the same time, the men convicted in connection with the riot were viewed by many in the labor movement as martyrs.

10. Pullman Strike 1894, Pullman Co. refused to negotiate
American Railway Union president Eugene V. Debs urged workers to not handle Pullman cars
Rail traffic stopped
President Cleveland called on federal troops
Strike ends, Debs jailed

11. Why Do We Have Labor Day???

12. Return of the Grudge…
These were hot, crowded, dangerous factories. (try to spell this correctly – say the word in your head and phonetically sound it out left to right)
Labor unions bargained for better _______ & _______ .
She fought to get children out of factories and into schools.
Worth up to 3 points!!