Industrialization and Labor

  1. Themes
    1. How did the actions of robber barons effect peoples' lives?
    2. What effect did union activity have upon workers' lives?
    3. What was the ultimate goal of industrial paternalism?
  2. Industrialization
    1. Urbanization
    2. Railroad
  3. Robber Barons
    1. Horatio Alger
    2. J.P. Morgan
    3. John D. Rockefeller
    4. Andrew Carnegie
  4. Growth of Unions
    1. 8-hour work day
    2. Molly Maguires
    3. 1877 General Railroad strikes
    4. Knights of Labor
    5. American Federation of Labor
  5. Strikes
    1. Haymarket Affair (1886)
    2. Pullman Strike (June 1894)
      1. Industrial paternalism
      2. Pullman's Palace Car Company
      3. American Railway Union
    3. Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, Wobblies)
      1. Big Bill Haywood, Western Federation of Miners
      2. One Big Union
      3. Joe Hill, Little Red Song Book
    4. 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, MA
    5. Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
      1. International Ladies Garment Workers Union
      2. Triangle Shirtwaist Company (March 25, 1911)
  6. Leaders
    1. Emma Goldman
    2. Edward Belamy's Looking Backward (1888)
    3. Eugene V. Debs
    4. Mother Jones