Bican: Conflict between Corporations and Labor

Conflict between Corporations and Labor

Multiple Choice

Laissez-Faire policies allowed corporations to exploit their workers.

• True

• False

Open Ended

Name one example of harsh working conditions from this industrial time period.

Conditions of Labor

• Long hours/low pay

• Hazardous, boring, repetitive tasks

• Child labor

• Lack of job security

These harsh conditions led to conflicts between corporations and labor

Open Ended

If you were a worker during this time period what could you do in order to try to improve your working conditions?

Labor Unions

• Organized workers joined together to protect their rights

Major Labor Unions (Organized Labor) of time period.

• AFL

• Knights of Labor

• International Workers of the World

Multiple Choice

What does the term reform mean?

• laws passed

• to approve something into a law

• make changes in order to improve something

Open Ended

If you were a union during this time period. What is one workplace reform you would advocate for?

Major reforms demanded by Labor Unions

• ban on child labor

• safety for workers

• shorter work day

• increase pay

Multiple Choice

A refusal to do work until demands are met.

• boycott

• strike

• scabbing

• collective bargaining

Multiple Choice

A refusal to economically support a product, service, or business.

• boycott

• strike

• scabbing

• collective bargaining

Multiple Choice

Negotiating for better conditions as a group instead as for oneself.

• boycott

• strike

• scabbing

• collective bargaining

Tactics used by Labor Unions to improve conditions:

• Strikes

• Boycotts

• Collective bargaining

Conflict between corporations and unions were often violent

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Car Company Strike

• Haymarket Riot

Multiple Choice

What impact did the Haymarket Riot have on the relationship between the government and unions?

• The government realized it needed to protect the rights of organized labor.

• The unions decided they had to overthrow the government

• The government believed that they needed to protect businesses.

Multiple Select

Which statements are true about the government's treatment of unions.

• Government sided with the business owners in disputes.

• The federal government saw unions as troublemakers and violent entities.

• The federal government supported union activities.

• Politicians accepted money from business leaders.

• The government became focused on protecting the rights of workers.

Multiple Choice

True or False: The Public was generally opposed to union activities and union demands.

• True

• False

Poll

I feel like the government was right in not supporting the labor unions.

• Agree

• Disagree

Look at these headlines there will be a question to follow.

Multiple Choice

Which statement about labor unions in the late 1800s is illustrated by the headlines in the previous slide?

• Strikes by labor unions usually gained public support.

• The government often opposed labor union activities.

• Labor unions demands were frequently met by large corporations.

• Arbitration was often used to end labor unrest in America.