Barons of Industry
Striking Out
Working Conditions and workers
Business as Usual
Inventors, Innovations, Inventions
100
This Scotsman was a true man of steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
1894 - nonviolent strike (brought down the railway system in most of the West) at the Pullman Palace Car Co. over wages - Prez. Cleveland shut it down because it was interfering with mail delivery
What is the Pullman Strike?
100
An organization of workers in a particular industry or trade, created to defend the interests of members through strikes or negotiations with employers.
What is a labor union?
100
A firm that is the sole seller of a product without close substitutes
What is a monopoly?
100
a new metal made by burning the impurities from iron
What is steel?
200
Rockefeller was its founder and became a horizontally integrated company, a veritable monopoly.
What is Standard Oil Company?
200
1892 steelworker strike near Pittsburgh against the Carnegie Steel Company. Ten workers were killed in a riot when "scab" labor was brought in to force an end to the strike.
What is the Homestead Strike?
200
Workers stop working until the conditions are met.
What is a strike
200
stated that business and the economy would run best with no interference (or even regulation) from the government.
What is laissez faire economics
200
credited with the assembly line and mass production as well as a vehicle line named after him.
Ford.
300
This man was one of the most powerful railroad leaders during the industrial revolution. By the time of his dearth in 1877, his companies controlled 4,500 miles of track and linked NYC to the Great Lakes.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
300
100,000 workers rioted in Chicago. After the police fired into the crowd, the workers met and rallied in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality. A bomb exploded, killing or injuring police. The Chicago workers and the man who set the bomb were immigrants and labor unionists, so the incident promoted anti-immigrant and anti-union feelings
What is Hay Market Square?
300
A form of insurance paid by the employer providing cash benefits to workers injured or disabled in the course of employment.
What is workman's comp.?
300
A group of separate companies that are placed under the control of a single Board of Directors. (Used famously by Rockefeller and Morgan)
What are trusts?
300
Something heats water up , and uses this to generate energy, this invention remains unchanged to this day
What is the steam engine?
400
was an American financier, banker, and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time.
Who is J.P Morgan?
400
Don't Pick em', these are men used to go to work while the regular workers on strike.
What is a scab?
400
Something we all have today for hourly workers paychecks, thanks to gains made by the labor unions.
What is the minimum wage?
400
an act of joining or consolidating with ones competitors to create a trust. Rockefeller was excellent with using this technique to monopolize certain markets. It is responsible for the majority of his wealth.
What is horizontal integration?
400
Fashion industry took off from these inventions
What are the sewing machine, and synthetic dyes?
500
Andrew Carnegie
This Scotsman was a true man of Steel.
500
A document signed by workers to agree not to strike or be fired.
What is a yellow dog contract?
500
This practice is banned in 1916, thanks in large part to new MANDATORY PUBLIC SCHOOLING AT AN EARLY AGE and labor unions demands for safer more humane work places.
What is child labor?
500
when a company takes over all different businesses on which it relied for its primary function (Carnegie Steel came to control not only steel mills but mines, railroads, etc)
What is vertical integration?
500
This liquid sap from a tree was used in bicylces and other vehicles, and is continued to be used today due to the vulcanization technique by GOODYEAR
what are rubber tires?
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