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Unit VI – A Growing
America
Chapter 19
Section 3 – Industrial Workers
Lecture Stations
Industrial Workers
The Big Idea
Changes in the workplace led to a rise in labor unions and
workers’ strikes.
Main Ideas
• The desire to maximize profits and become more efficient
led to poor working conditions.
• Workers began to organize and demand improvements in
working conditions and pay.
• Labor strikes often turned violent and failed to accomplish
their goals.
Main Idea 1:
The desire to maximize profits and become more efficient
led to poor working conditions.
 Several
factors led to a decline in the quality
of working conditions in the late 1800s.
 Frederick
W. Taylor, an efficiency expert,
published The Principles of Scientific
Management in 1909.
Maximizing Profits and Efficiency
 Why
did factories focus on
specialization?
 How did machines lead to a
decrease in jobs?
Poor Working Conditions
Workers begin to Organize
Trade Unions


1842- Commonwealth v. Hunt-.
1866- National Labor Union-.
Main Idea 2:
Workers began to organize and demand
improvements in working conditions and pay.
Knights of
Labor
American
Federation of
Labor
•collective
bargaining
Trade Unions

1869- Noble Order of the Knights of Labor
Craft Unions

American Federation
of Labor
Workers Organize
 What
were two important labor
unions in the late 1800’s?
 Why
did collective bargaining give
workers a greater chance of
success?
Main Idea 3:
Labor strikes often turned violent and
failed to accomplish their goals.
Haymarket
Riot
Homestead
Strike
Pullman
Strike
Labor Strikes
 What
were union members protesting
during the Homestead Strike?
 Did the Haymarket Riot help or hurt
the labor movement?
 Do you think strikes are an effective
and appropriate way to handle labor
disputes?