Industrialization
What is industrialization?
-Factories
-More machines
- Faster Products
- more money
- Late 1800s-1900s
A robber baron was
someone who was corrupt and abused their workers for profit
What was the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory?
a factory in NYC that produced clothing
Problems in the working condtions
- unsafe
-low pay
-long hours
What caused labor unions?
- Poor working conditions
When a factory makes a product quickly and cheaply in large quantities
Mass Production
a captain of Industry was
a business tycoon who worked hard and built their business giving back to their communities
What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
a major fire that harmed/killed many young immigrant women because of poor working conditions and unsafe environment
What do workers do when they are upset with their job
-Strike
What is a labor union?
- workers that join together to fight for working rights.
The Second Industrial Revolution focused on the development of what type of energy?
-Electric and oil
a monopoly is
when a person controls all of a single business and hurts the business of small workers
Young immigrant women
Why was child labor so common
-pay was so low people needed another labor force
-children were cheaper to pay for a wage and could do specific jobs
Why do labor unions help?
Because industrialists cannot take advantage of workers if they are united.
The economic system that allowed so many business owners to be successful because of little government regulation.
Capitalism
Max Blanck
How much money did men, women and children make?
- 10
-5
-1
Some rights that workers deserve
- fair pair
- 8 hour of work
- lunch break
- safe conditions
-people moved to cities to get jobs in factories
Ways that a monopoly hurts other businesses
- takes away jobs
-raises prices
- poor working conditions
- lack of rights in the job market
Result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- labor unions
-better working conditions
-workplace laws
Result of poor working conditions
- labor unions
-labor laws
-improved conditions
Example of a labor union
Westbury Teachers Assoc