In Chapter four of Albert Marrin’s Flesh and Blood So Cheap “A Gathering Storm” (pages 73-84) relates to the world today in several ways. From striking to gangsters, to “fancy ladies.”
First and foremost, like usual, factory owners ALWAYS have more power over employees and can fire them for whatever reason they want. The fact that trade unions were formed deeply affects the way that we live today, thus not allowing bosses to literally have control over the lives of desperate workers. Without these unions the way unionized workers work would not be nearly as the same. The refusal to work, striking, really hit industries of coal, steel, and others where it hurt, where they lost extreme amounts of money and were also given a “bad reputation.” Manufacturers hated the fact that unions were giving employees the idea to stand up for …show more content…
“Owner’s, however, united behind Max Blanck and Isaac Harris of the Triangle Waist Company. Their aim: do whatever it took to crush the strike.” It was at this point where owners decided to hire “scabs” or gangsters to break up the strike. Scabs may be poor themselves, but strikers saw them as “villains stealing bread from others’ mouths.” In order to “get to work” scabs had to cross a picket line of strikers called pickets. Scabs often “lost heart” or became soft once having to turn around due to the guilt that hit them when they heard things like “How would you like it if we stole your jobs,” and had to look them in the eye. This relates to today because usually in our society, when people are feeling threatened they get other people to take care of the “dirty work” instaed of figuring out ways to work things out and talk about the situation. When using scabs didn’t work owners decided to “play dirty” and hired “fancy ladies,” or prostitutes break picket lines, through violence, so that the scabs could get
First and foremost, like usual, factory owners ALWAYS have more power over employees and can fire them for whatever reason they want. The fact that trade unions were formed deeply affects the way that we live today, thus not allowing bosses to literally have control over the lives of desperate workers. Without these unions the way unionized workers work would not be nearly as the same. The refusal to work, striking, really hit industries of coal, steel, and others where it hurt, where they lost extreme amounts of money and were also given a “bad reputation.” Manufacturers hated the fact that unions were giving employees the idea to stand up for …show more content…
“Owner’s, however, united behind Max Blanck and Isaac Harris of the Triangle Waist Company. Their aim: do whatever it took to crush the strike.” It was at this point where owners decided to hire “scabs” or gangsters to break up the strike. Scabs may be poor themselves, but strikers saw them as “villains stealing bread from others’ mouths.” In order to “get to work” scabs had to cross a picket line of strikers called pickets. Scabs often “lost heart” or became soft once having to turn around due to the guilt that hit them when they heard things like “How would you like it if we stole your jobs,” and had to look them in the eye. This relates to today because usually in our society, when people are feeling threatened they get other people to take care of the “dirty work” instaed of figuring out ways to work things out and talk about the situation. When using scabs didn’t work owners decided to “play dirty” and hired “fancy ladies,” or prostitutes break picket lines, through violence, so that the scabs could get