1. Industrial Workers
Corporations leading to poor working conditions. Attempting to:
Maximizing Profits
Becoming more efficient
Workers organizing, demanding:
Better working conditions
Higher wages
Strikes often became violent. Failed to accomplish goals.

2. Maximizing Profits Machines – eliminating jobs of skilled workers
Specialization

3. Frederick W. Taylor
Influenced business managers to view workers as interchangeable parts
Encouraged managers to care less about workers

9. Workers Organize Labor Unions
Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor
Collective Bargaining
Strikes
Often put down by business owners and states
Became violent

10. What Workers Wanted: Better hours Safer conditions Higher wages
No child labor
Equal pay for equal work