Factory Work
The main thing factory owners cared about.
What is profit?
The decade when 600,000 people came to the US.
What are the 1830s?
About how much money a day did kids make?
What is about 10 cents?
The main reason workers started joining together.
What is to fight bad treatment?
What's it called when workers stop working to get what they want?
What is a strike?
What factory workers were compared to.
What are "replaceable parts of a machine"?
How many total immigrants came to the US between 1840 and 1860?
What is 4.2 million?
Which group of workers usually got paid the least?
What are children?
How many main goals did early labor unions have?
What is three?
Which job action is usually the most effective for a union?
What is a strike?
Give two words to describe how it usually was to work in a factory.
What are unsafe and unhealthy conditions?
By 1860, about what part of the US population was born in another country?
What is one-eighth (1/8)?
What's the word for hating or fearing people from other countries?
What is xenophobia?
What's one thing workers needed to do to make their unions strong?
What is being united?
What did striking workers try to stop replacement workers from doing?
What is going inside to work?
About how much money a day did adult men make?
What is approximately 0.50 cents per day?
What was one bad result of so many immigrants coming to the US?
What is prejudice against immigrants?
What big thing happening in the country made it easier for factory owners to pay low wages and have bad conditions?
What is the large number of immigrants looking for work?
What usually happened to workers who tried to start a union?
What is they were fired?
What's a negative name for a worker who takes the job of someone on strike?
What is a scab?
How many hours a day did people typically work in factories?
What is twelve to fourteen?
What's one reason why new immigrants were often taken advantage of at work?
What is they often didn't know English or their rights?
How long is a normal workday in the US today?
What is 8 hours?
Why did the first labor union meetings often have to be secret?
What is factory owners didn't want them?
What's the term for when workers stand outside a workplace to try to stop others from going in?
What is picketing?