New Industrial Age

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New Industrial Age

• Week 13
• Chapter 14

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Beginnings . . .

• Civil War-
• Rapid Expansion of Industry
• What is needed for Industrial Expansion
• Capital Money
• Natural Resources Oil, Coal, Iron, Rivers
• Technological Development Inventions
• Labor Force Workers - Cities

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Captain's of Industry

• Andrew Carnegie
• Steel
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Railroads and Steamships
• John D. Rockefeller
• Oil Refining
• J.P. Morgan
• Banking Investments

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Inventors

• Thomas Edison
• Incandescent Light Bulb, Moving Pictures,
  Phonograph
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Telephone

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Results of Industrial Revolution

• Population Moves
• Farms to Cities
• Working Conditions
• Horrible
• No unions
• Cities Growing Very Fast
• Too Fast
• Bad Planning
• Immigrants

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Labor Movement

• Factory Workers
• Unskilled
• Interchangeable Parts
• Immigrants are Replacements
• Talking about Unions?
• Fired or Worse?
• Blacklisted
• Loss of Pride
• Boss used to know everyone's name
• Now just a Number

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Labor Movement

• Knights of Labor
• Tried to Organize ALL workers
• Discredited by Haymarket Riots, Chicago
• American Federation of Labor
• Organized SKILLED workers
• Carpenters, Plumbers
• Starts with Cigar Rollers Samuel Gompers
• No Social or Political Agenda
• Practical Unionization

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Labor Movement

• Labor Problems result in violence all over the
  country
• Strikes
• Scabs / Strikebreakers
• Personal Police
• World War
• Slows Labor Problems
• Labor Force Declines

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Example of Working Conditions

• Triangle Shirtwaist Company
• March 25, 1911
• 146 people, mostly young women, burned to death
  in the factory fire.
• Most doors were locked to prevent workers from
  taking breaks or leaving early
• Dusty, Dirty Conditions Fueled Fire.
• Fire Truck ladders only reach second floor
• Window Bolted Shut
• Fire spread so fast most bodies were found still
  hunched over sewing machines.

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