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LABOR Mr. McMurray
Why was industrialization so successful?
¨ Mass Production – making lots required efficiency ¤ Frederick Winslow Taylor
n “Principles of Scientific Management”
¤ Ford’s assembly line
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Working Class Issues
¨ Workers faced… ¤ Tedium & boredom ¤ Low pay ¤ Long hours ¤ Dangerous conditions
n Sweatshops in US! ¤ Child labor ¤ Tenement housing ¤ Bore the brunt of
economic downturn
Political Cartoon Analysis The Protectors of Our Industries
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Workers Respond
¨ Formed labor unions ¤ Power by numbers
¨ Federations ¤ Groups of unions ¤ Started with National
Labor Union (1866) n Fought for 8 hour workday n collapsed
Three major organizations formed…
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Setback to organizing
¨ Government favored industry ¤ Helped break up strikes using injunctions and force
¨ Used Sherman Anti-trust Act, intended to curb monopolies, to claim unions restricted commerce
¨ What does this say about the relationship between government and big business during the Gilded Age?
“What a funny little government…”