1. Business Signature sheets due Quiz: Wednesday Sept 14 20, points
No writing portion

2. Industrial Revolution in the US
Write an editorial about the Gilded Age written by:
The owner of a large corporation
A poor worker (miner, assembly line worker, etc)

3. How did industry affect workers’ lives?
How and why did they resist harsh treatment?

4. Labor issues
Conditions
Danger
Pay
Workers vs bosses
Child Labor
Women

5. Unions What is a union? Why have them?
A group of people who represent an industry
Speak/act on behalf of workers
Why have them?
Collective bargaining power

6. Unions in Gilded Age 2 basic types of workers:
Craft workers- have special skills / training
Common laborers- have few skills
Craft workers begin to form trade unions
Iron workers, shoemakers

7. Opposition to unions Employers had to negotiate
Workers had skills that were needed
Companies tried to stop workers from unionizing:
Required workers to take oaths
Hired detectives to find organizers
Created blacklist
Lockouts

8. strikes What is a strike? Why would workers do this?
Employees refusing to work
Why would workers do this?

9. Strikes in Gilded age Great Railroad Strike
Wages cut and workers walked off the job
Spread across the country
2/3 of America’s railways
Militias called in, violence erupted
Result- 100 dead, $10 million damage

10. Strikes in the gilded age
1902 Coal Strike
140,000 miners went on strike and made demands
5 months in, coal reserves ran low
Roosevelt called both sides to negotiate
Result: Led to a compromise
When a strike threatens public welfare, federal government must intervene

11. Turning point- Triangle Shirtwaist factory
NYC garment factory
Employed hundreds of immigrants
Mostly young women who worked 9-hour days and 7-hour Saturdays

16. Triangle Shirtwaist fire
March 25, :40pm
A scrap bin with two months’ cuttings catches fire on eighth floor
No way of contacting ninth floor

24. Video clips
Watch the selected clips and answer the questions on the sheet

25. Make your own strike poster
Choose an industry
Create a poster for a strike of workers from that industry
What do they want?