1. Labor Responds to the Rober Barrons EQ: Was the Rise of Labor Unions good For America? Chapter 2 in Notebook Ch. 14 TCI

2. Conditions of the Working Class Workers worked long hours for little pay

3. Conditions of the Working Class Division of Labor: One Job One Task Boring Repetitive

4. Conditions of the Working Class Hazardous Working Conditions

5. Conditions of the Working Class Child Labor

6. Conditions of the Working Class Many workers lived in cramped, unsanitary tenement housing

7. Discuss Describe a time you were unhappy with certain conditions, at home, work, or school? How did you try to change those conditions? Were you successful? Why or why not?

8. The Labor Movement Workers joined together to form Labor Unions to demand better pay and working conditions

9. 8 hours for Work, 8 hours for Rest, 8 hours for what we want

10. Labor Movement Unions threatened to strike when demands aren’t met

11. The Labor Movement Unions joined to form National Labor Organizations to be a powerful force in government.

12. Think-Pair-Share What do you think Rockefeller, Carnegie, or Vanderbilt would have felt about Labor Unions? How would they deal with them?

13. The Labor Movement Ways employers attempted to stop unions Fire the workers who joined unions

14. The Labor Movement Ways employers attempted to stop unions Owners created blacklists of union members so they couldn’t get hired.

15. Strike! Strike! For Workers Rights! Railroad Strike 1877, West Virginia Panic of 1873, Railroadscut wages. Strikers destroyed rails, attacked police (2 weeks)

16. Strike! Strike! For Workers Rights! Railroad Strike 1877, West Virginia President Hayes used military to break the strike. 100 dead, lots of property damage Fear of Socialism and Anarchy?

17. Strike! Strike! For Workers Rights! Haymarket Affair 1886, Chicago Protest over scabs: Non Union workers replacing striking workers Police trying to break up Protest shot into the crowd.

18. Strike! Strike! For Workers Rights! Haymarket Affair 1886, Chicago Large rally the next day, Bomb Explodes! Clash between Police and Crowd. Anarchists blamed for bomb (anti government) Too extreme?

19. Strike! Strike! For Workers Rights! Homestead Strike 1892, Pennsylvania Carnegie Steel Plant During strike, Plant Manager hired Pinkerton Agency guards to protect plant – Private Police Force, Armed, Strike Breakers.

20. Strike! Strike! For Workers Rights! Homestead Strike 1892, Pennsylvania Clash between Union & Pinkerton Agents Governor brought in National Guard to break the strike. Non-Union worker replacements

21. Strike! Strike! For Workers Rights! Pullman Train Car Strike 1894, Chicago Employees lived in a company town, Pullman, Illinois. Employees bought food, clothes from company stores. Rented company owned housing EXPENSIVE!

22. Strike! Strike! For Workers Rights! Pullman Train Car Strike 1894, Chicago Company cut pay, but not rents & other items Workers Strike—shut down rail lines, including mail cars (violates federal law) President Cleveland uses military to break the strike.

23. Union Report Card Government favored owners over workers Government sent in troops to break up strikes Many Americans feared Unions—to radical & violent

24. Union Report Card Working conditions for Union & Non-Union improved. Pay raises Shorter working hours – HOWEVER, women, blacks, immigrants were paid less.

26. Union Report Card IN THE END: Unions challenged the old system where workers were treated like dirt. Workers have rights, and can sit with owners to make their workplace great.

27. Exit Ticket On Edmodo Answer the EQ: Were Labor Unions good for America. Step 1: Write a Thesis Statement Step 2: Use two pieces of Evidence from today’s or previous lessons Step 3: Analyze your evidence to prove your point.