Objs

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17.2 Reforming the New Industrial Order

• Objs
• Explain how the Progressives tried to reform the
  workplace.
• Discuss how the Supreme Court responded to social
  legislation.
• Discuss how labor organizations represented
  workers in the Progressive Era and how they
  differed.

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Bellringer

• Read the passage
• This is not the first time girls have been
  burned alive in the city. Each week I must learn
  of the untimely death of one of my sister
  workers. Every year thousands of us are maimed.
  The life of men and women is so cheap and
  property is so sacred. There are so many of us
  for one job it matters little if 143 of us are
  burned to death.
• Look at the Question
• What societal problems are exposed in this piece?
• Reread the passage and look for the answer

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Copy HW

• Read and outline p. 522-529 using one of the
  methods be sure to address moral issues in the
  urban problems.
• Questions
• 1. What advances/reforms did the Progressives
  make in the field of child labor?
• 2. In what ways did the Progressives hope to
  reform society?
• 3. How did the strikes of 1886 weaken the labor
  movement?
• 4. What was the Supreme Courts decision in Dred
  Scott v. Sanford?

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Compare and Share HW

• What types of political and social evils did
  muckrakers expose through their writings? (Give
  a specific example)
• What problems did American industrial workers and
  farmers face in the 1800s?
• How did the Populist Party represent the
  interests of farmers, laborers, and political
  reformers?
• How did Congress plan for Reconstruction differ
  from Lincolns?

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Intro

• Should children be allowed to work? Quick write.
• Be sure to define children

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Industrial Problems

• 10 hour average workday
• 6 day work week
• 1.50 average daily wage
• Women and children paid less
• 1/3 of employed Americans lived in poverty
• Unsafe working conditions ex fire traps

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In the mills
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In the bowling alleys.
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In the mines
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In the streets.
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And at home. Kids worked!
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Proposed Legislation

• Child Labor Laws
• Florence Kelley
• IL limits hours
• National Child Labor Committee
• 1912 39 states had laws
• Poor enforcement

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Working Hours

• Limits for women at the state level gained by
  Florence Kelley
• Wages
• 1/3 of workers lived in poverty
• Mass. 1st state to adopt a minimum wage law
• 1938 1str national minimum wage law

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Safer Working Conditions

• One cause Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
• Effect NY adopts the strictest fire safety code
  in nation

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The Courts Response

• Sided with business
• Declared early social legislation
  unconstitutional
• Violated workers freedom of contract Lochner v.
  New York
• Muller v. Oregon used social research to prove
  negative effects of long hours on womens health

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Labor Unions

• Increased in membership 1900-1920
• Closed Shops only union members hired
• Some supported SOCIALISM gov. owns means of
  production
• AFL
• Samuel Gompers increased membership
• Bread and butter unionism
• Excluded unskilled workers
• International Ladies Garment Workers Union
  mixed succcess

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• IWW wanted to overthrow capitalism
• Used unscrupulous methods
• 1912 strike successful

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Closure

• Are unions still necessary today?