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33 Cards in this Set
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Industrialization 1877 1914
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Prophets of progress vs. Robber Barrons
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controversial
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Innovations and consolidations
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Rail roads, corporate structures, diffrent departments, standardization and a pool.
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industrial stuff
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Andrew Carnegie
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Steel- verticaly intergrated
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vertical
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Rockefeller
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oil, horizontal integration
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horizontal
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Lassie faire pro and con
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Pro: new products, mass production, cheaper
Con: concentration of wealth, boom and bust economy, decline in artisans |
wealth and cheap
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Mechanization and changing status of labor
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assembly line, higher efficiency, interchangable parts, deskilling, alienation of labor, discipline
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good and bad
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what happened to workers?
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loss of independence, workers easily replaced, wages declined and freedom of contract was used as an excuse
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sadness
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what happened to women and children during this time
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they worked for less wages and were used for small machines that require nimble hands
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little hands
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Safety measures
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fire ecapes were not there, fire deparment tools were inadequate and all together dangerous
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bad
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Social Darwinism
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A take off of Darwins theory in 1859. It says that when applied to people, people unfit, like drunks, should not be helped, that they are unfit and so should not be helped to survive. Herbert Spencer is a proponent and it falls in line with Laisse fair
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darwin
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Carnegies wealth
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Believed it was the wealthy's duty to help those who are willing to work hard at bettering themselves
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better themselves
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Concerns of the time period
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Dependency on wages
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wage slaves
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Knights of labor
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Terence Powderly. wanted change in all society and accepted all skilled and unskilled, except for bankers and lawyers. Haymarket riot, they were blamed even thpough they had nothing to do with it.
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society
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AFL
American Federation of workers |
Samuel Gompers and skilled workers. They only wanted change in wages and hours and condition
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skilled
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Organizng women
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was difficult to do. They had a hard time balancing reputations and meetings as well as the fact that they were dependent.
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relationships
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Women trade league union 1903
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worked with AFL and women allies, upper class women
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AFL
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Industrial workers of the world
IWW 1905 |
B ig Bill Hayword. most radical. Accepted the most unskilled workers. Believed workers and management had nothing in common
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unskilled
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Syndicalism
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strikes would build into a general strike and lead to change in the government
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grow
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How the Government reacted to strikes
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They did several things, anti unions, open shops- no unions, close shops- unions
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unions
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Liberty of contract
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workers don't need legal wages because they can quit
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quit
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Holden vs Hardy
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mining was so dangerous that hours should be limited
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mine
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Lochner vs NY
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ruled that baking did not need limited hours
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baking
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Homestead strike 1892
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steel town, Carnegie and frick said we'll pay you what we want and there was a lockout of workers they took over the factory and eventually the militia comes to stop it.
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carnegie and frick
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Pullman strike 1894
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Pullman cut wages there was a strike and tried to boycott. It started peaceful but turned violent since they attachted a mail cart AFL fails and all workers are evicted.
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AFL fails
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Why such strife?
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Unstable communities, rapid industrialia=zation, Diverse and ethnocetric, wealth diffrences and laisse fair
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stable lack
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CCauses of Urbanization
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growth of industry, company towns, sky scrappers and larger towns
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industry
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Problems with urbanization
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the government isn't planning, over crowding, Dumbbell housing, no safety codes, no sewwer, disease, garbage and lots of people
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safety codes
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Solutions for problems
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Mutual aid society, for job and insourance
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help
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City Boss system
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a political machine, city controlled by one political group. People who work for the city bosses wprk in diffrent wards. Offer incentives
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politics
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First wave
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mid 19th century, Irish- police, Germans- there were many religions
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I and G
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Second wave
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late 19th early 20th. Larger numbers, Slavic people, seem much stranger
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Slavic
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Nativism
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Wanted immigrants to assimulate. They were worried that people were going to vote and were worried about Catholics
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assimulate
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1882 Chinese exclusion act
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They wanted to keep out workers for fear that the market would be flooded. It was said they couldn't conform
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flood
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