January+11+12

What do you think was the number 1 reason was for why workers were paid so poorly and worked in such harsh conditions?
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Let's read Labor in the Age of Industrialization together (2nd Hour only).
 * What We Did In Class**

Today and tomorrow we will work in our new table groups to complete an assignment that digs deeper into understanding **//labor's response to industrial growth//**. You will be assigned one of the following. Notice these are links to readings. Click the link you are assigned and save that reading. Alpha: Sources of Worker Unrest Bravo: The Drive for Unionization Charlie: The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Delta: The Molly Maguires Echo: The Origins of American Trade Unionism Foxtrot: Haymarket Square Golf: Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor Hotel: Socialist and Radical Alternatives
 * 1) What changes in American society after the Civil War caused the "wrenching loss of status"?
 * 2) What does the term "wage slave" mean? How did this come about?
 * 3) What was at stake in the debates over the working class in the capitalist economy?
 * 1) What is communism and why were early union members called "communist"?
 * 2) How were unions and union members treated?
 * 3) How did employers try to make unionization more difficult?
 * 1) Why were railroad workers so upset? Is there more to the story than low wages? Seek another source...
 * 2) How big was the strike?
 * 3) How is this event representative of the conditions/conflict between workers and corporate greed?
 * 1) Who were the Molly Maguires? Details...
 * 2) Why were their tactics so extreme?
 * 3) How is this group representative of the conditions/conflict between workers and corporate greed?
 * 1) Who were the Knights of Labor?
 * 2) How were they different from earlier unions?
 * 3) What were they hoping to achieve?
 * 4) How is this group representative of the conditions/conflict between workers and corporate greed?
 * 1) What event started the whole ordeal? Then what...? Then what...?
 * 2) Why were the executed men considered martyrs?
 * 3) How is this event representative of the conditions/conflict between workers and corporate greed?
 * 1) What was the AFL and what did they aim to achieve?
 * 2) What is meant when it says Gompers is "pragmatic"? More than the definition...
 * 3) How is this group representative of the conditions/conflict between workers and corporate greed?
 * 1) What is meant by "socialist"?
 * 2) What is the relationship between socialists and immigrants?
 * 3) Do a little more research on the Industrial Workers of the World... How are they more than a union?
 * 4) What does this organization tell us about the conditions/conflict between workers and corporate greed?


 * Homework**

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