Big Business 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

Multiple Select

Choose two other phrases that mean the same thing as LABOR UNIONS.

• Arbitrators

• Organized Labor

• Labor Organizations

• Corporations

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

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• ban on child labor

• safety for workers

• shorter work day

• increase pay

​Tactics Used by labor unions to achieve goals

*Collective Bargaining

*Strikes

*Boycotts​

Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion

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

Conflict between corporations and unions were often violent

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Car Company Strike

• Haymarket Riot

Draw

Highlight or underline how the government viewed union activities.

Multiple Choice

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

• The federal government saw unions as troublemakers and wanted to protect businesses

• The federal government supported union activities.

• Politicians accepted money from business leaders.

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

Multiple Choice

During the late 1800s, the ideas expressed in these lyrics would have supported the same goal as

• farmers demanding regulation of railroads

• organizers of labor unions

• sharecroppers after the Civil War

• owners of large corporations

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.