1. Workers Wednesday, Oct. 1st
Take your seat
Take out a separate piece of paper
Take out your notebook
Quietly begin warm-up
Warm-Up – 1 paragraph (6-8 sent)
Have American attitudes towards immigration changed very much from the immigration periods of and today? Why or why not?
Think about the political cartoons that you saw in the carousel notes

2. Today’s Agenda Warm-Up / Class Discussion FN: “Workers Organize”
Homework:
Finish Vocabulary (quiz on Friday – any and all vocab words from unit 2 apply)
Study Guide Questions 11-12, 15-18

3. Workers Organize
EQ: What factors lead to the development of unions and how did they impact American industry?

4. Workers Endure Hardships
Women and Children exploited
Long days
14-16 hrs
6 days a week
Low pay
Dangerous working conditions
No health benefits, vacation or security

5. Labor Unions and the Impact of Industrialization
unions allow workers to negotiate with their bosses as a group
this is called collective bargaining
shorter work hours, safer working conditions, workman’s compensation
unions collect dues to raise money for their causes
the National Labor Union was the first large nation-wide labor union, it collapsed during the depression of 1873

6. Skilled v. Unskilled Labor
Skilled Worker
workers that possess some expertise, training, or education that make them hard or impossible to replace
masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, and bakers
Unskilled Worker
workers that possess no specific training and are therefore easily replaced
miner, factory assembly
Silk Workers – very skilled labor

7. Knights of Labor Knights of Labor, 1869
secretive union that allowed any worker (skilled or unskilled) to join
except liquor dealers, gamblers, and lawyers
membership rose to over 700,000
pushed for an end to child labor, progressive income tax, and equal pay for women

8. American Federation of Labor - 1886
led by Samuel Gompers, this union was made of a whole bunch of skilled unions
the AFL is the largest union organization in the US today
more successful in negotiations because it’s members were harder to replace
anti-immigrant, especially anti-Chinese

9. Strike Terminology (don’t write)
work-to-rule
workers perform their tasks exactly as they are required to but no better
sickout
the strikers call in sick
sit-down strike
workers may occupy the workplace, but refuse either to do their jobs or to leave
general strike
Strike that involve all workers, or a number of large and important groups of workers, in a particular community or region
sympathy strike
one group of workers refuses to cross a picket line established by another as a means of supporting the striking workers.

10. Terrific Thursday, Oct. 2nd
Take your seat
Take out Your Warm-Ups
Take out your notebook
Quietly begin warm-up
Warm-Up – 1 paragraph (5+ sent)
Do you think Labor Unions are necessary in today’s world? Why or why not?

11. Today’s Agenda Warm-Up / Class Discussion FN: “Workers Organize”
Homework:
Finish Vocabulary (quiz on Monday – any and all vocab words from unit 2 apply)
Get caught up on any incomplete assignments
Possible IDs – Gilded Age, Social Gospel, Americanization, Angel & Ellis Island

12. Haymarket Square Riot, 1886
a rally for union workers in Chicago turned into a riot when a bomb went off
Killed 7 police and many civilians
8 anarchists were arrested for murder
anti-immigrant, anti-labor prejudice hurt unions

13. Pullman Strike, 1893
Amid a depression, the Pullman Palace Car Company cut pay by 28%
the American Railway Union called for a boycott
125,000+ workers went on strike in Chicago
they toppled trains to shut down the nation’s railroads
12,000 troops broke up the strike because they interfered with the US Mail

14. Pullman Strike, 1893

15. Labor Day

16. Fill in the chart below Labor Unions Organize Workers Suffer
A labor movement grows
Strikes break out

17. Fill in the chart below Knights of Labor Sweatshops Long Hours
Labor Unions
Organize
Workers Suffer
AFL
Dangerous work
A labor movement grows
Strikes break out
Pullman Strike
Haymarket Riot