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Speed Up, Stretch Out, Shut Up!
Labor in Industrial America
TAH Osceola County
19 September 2009
Cordwainer
“The Ten Footer” (1880)
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Children at Work in a Vegetable Cannery, 1912
“Bobbin Boys” at a Textile Mill, 1909
“Breaker Boys” at a Colliery, Late 19th Century
Comparative Safety of British and American Railroad Workers, 1889 - 1901
(Fatality Rates per Thousand Workers per Year)
1889
1895
1901
British railroad workers
All causes
1.14
0.95
0.89
British trainmena
All causes
4.26
3.22
2.21
Coupling
0.94
0.83
0.74
American Railroad workers
All causes
2.67
2.31
2.50
American trainmen
All causes
8.52
6.45
7.35
Coupling
1.73
1.20
0.78
Brakingb
3.25
2.44
2.03
Source: Aldrich, Safety First, Table 1 and Great Britain Board of Trade, General Report.
Upton Sinclair
Chicago Saloons
Early 20th Century
“The Spark” (1877)
Terrance Powderly and the
Knights of Labor
Haymarket
Square
1886
Samuel Gompers
1900
Iron “Puddling”
Carnegie, The Hard Driver
Henry Clay Frick
“Beehive” Coke Oven in Pennsylvania
“Making Bessemer Steel at
Pittsburgh” (1886)
U.S. Steel