The Labor Movement, 1865-1920
Industrial Revolution
Urbanization
Company Housing
Safety Hazards
Firefighting Clubs
Wealthy Neighborhoods
Suburbs
Immigration
Reasons for Immigration
The Immigrant Experience
Tenements - poorly built dwellings, no running water or electricity
Economic Disparity
The Wealthy
The Poor
Justifying the Industrial Order:
Gospel of Wealth
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
Charles Darwin
Origins of the Species
Survival of the Fittest
Effects
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Myth of Success
Horatio Alger
Plot
Rags to Riches Story
Political Corruption
The Tweed Ring
William Tweed
Tammany Hall
The Rise of the Labor Movement
Unions
Strikes
Business-Government Alliance
Opposition by Business Owners
Fire Workers
Deny Jobs
Yellow Dog Contracts
Blacklists
Hiring Practices
Strike Breakers (scabs)
Immigrant workers
Division Among Workers
Labor Solidarity
International Ladies Garment Worker’s Union (ILGWU)
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1. The Railroad Strike of 1877
Panic of 1873
Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes
Outcome
2. The Knights of Labor
Uriah Stephens
Membership
The Haymarket Riot, 1886
McCormick Harvest Company, Chicago
Reasons for Strike
Clash with Police
Chicago Haymarket Square
Anarchist
Effects
3. The Homestead Strike, 1892
Association of Iron and Steel Workers Union
Homestead Steel Factories
Andrew Carnegie & Henry Frick
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Pinkertons
4. The Pullman Strike, 1894
Pullman Manufacturing Co
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George Pullman
Company Town
American Railway Union
Eugene Debs
The Spark
U.S. Mail
Pres. Grover Cleveland
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Labor and Politics
American Socialist Party
Eugene Debs
International Workers of the World (IWW)
Bill Haywood
Anarcho-Syndicalism
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