Friday, January 16, 2015

Agenda for 1/16

1. Ingredients of Industrialization - Quiz (timed 10 mins)

2. Effects of Industrialization




3. Crash Course: Workers and Unions (8:15 - end)


4. Conflicts between Labor and Capital





 4. How effective were attempts to reign in the power of industry during the Second Industrial Revolution? 
  • Unions: National Labor Union, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, IWW. 



  • Strikes: Great Railroad Strike, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike.



 

  • Federal Government Legislation: Interstate Commerce Act, Sherman Anti-Trust Act 






    5. Organized Labor Today? 




    HW - Ch. 18 Reading Assignment (eBackpack)

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