Unit 3: Concept Checkpoint #3 (Labor Conditions & Unions)

Select THREE working conditions during Industrialization

• Long hours (10-16 hours)

• No benefits (no healthcare, sick time, insurance)

• Clean Environments

• Child Labor

• Paid time off for vacations

What are labor unions?

• Owning all of a certain business

• Growth of cities

• •  a group of workers who worked

    together for better wages and working conditions

• period of change in which the United States transformed from an agrarian society to urban society

Why were labor unions created?

• Because worked wanted to become managers

• Because workers were receiving too many benefits and no work was being done

• Because bosses wanted to join together to make more money

• Because of bad working conditions and very low wages

Match the following

• Stop working & protest a business

• Strike

• Refuse to buy a business' products

• Collective Bargaining

• Negotiations between bosses & workers

• Boycott

Why could businesses have harsh working conditions during Industrialization?

• Because the government made many laws that allowed businesses to do so

• Because there were many antitrust laws

• Because of imperialist policies that were about territory

• Because the government had laissez-faire policies towards big businesses

What does laissez-faire mean?

• VERY involved

• Staying up to date with the current news

• Hands-off, not involved

• Creating antitrust laws

Why was strikes like the Homestead Strike and Pullman Strike unsuccessful?

• The workers gave up and were tried of striking

• Government wanted the big business owners instead of the workers

• Too many strikebreakers were used so workers lost all their jobs instead

• Big business owners decided to ban strikes