1. Industrialization and the Gilded Age of Politics

4. I. Industrialization 1.Industrialization 2.Urbanization 3.Immigration

5. II. Technology 1.Edison 2.Ford

6. Technology (cont’d) 3.Other inventions 1.Refrigeration

7. III. Labor 1.Work like robots. 2.Employers take control 3.Women and kids 4.Unsafe 5.No benefits

8. 6. Strikes!—Great RR Strike of 1877

9. IV. Unions 1.Better pay, conditions, hours 2.Knights of Labor 1.Blacks 2.Immigrants 3.Women 4.Skilled/Unskilled 3.Too general

10. Unions (cont’d) 4.Haymarket Riot 1886 5.American Federation of Labor (AFL) 6.Skilled; org. by craft 7.No women, blacks, Immigrants, unskilled

11. V. Women, Blacks, Immigrants 1.Women’s Trade Union League 2.Knights of Labor  only all inclusive union

12. VI. Corporate Giants 1.Supreme Court defends corporations as “citizens”!! 2.John D. Rockefeller 3.Horizontal Integration—One aspect of production 4.Monopoly

14. Corporate Giants (cont’d) 5.Andrew Carnegie 6.Vertical Integration—all aspects of an industry 7.U.S. Steel Corp. 8.JP Morgan 9.Financed such corporations

15. VII. Social Views 1.Darwin’s theory of “natural selection” is applied to humans  Social Darwinism 2.Survival of the fittest 3.Competition is good! 4.Wealthy used this as justification for their wealth

16. Social Views (cont’d) 5. Gospel of Wealth—Andrew Carnegie 6.Pursuit of wealth like a religion 7.Wealth means responsibility to give to the poor. 8.Money/Wealth is how success was measured 9.Many disagreed, of course

17. Social Views (cont’d) 10. Poor were viewed negatively 11. “You get what you deserve!”

21. VIII. Increase in Standard of Living 1.Mass goods 2.Mass ads 3.Luxury items 4.Rising incomes  status symbols

22. Increase in Standard of Living (cont’d) 5.More Leisure Time! The Great Frysinger Team 1900-1901

24. Vaudville Forerunner to film

25. Yellow Journalism

26. IX. Urbanization 1.1880—U.S. Urban 2.Many moved to city  better life opportunity 3.Natural resources+RR+Industrialization=Urban growth 4.Suburbs  for the wealthy 5.Indoor plumbing, street lights, sewers, etc.

27. Urbanization (cont’d) 6. Inner cities= slums

30. 7.Dumbbell Tenements 8.Cheap brick 9.4-6 stories 10.Very small 11.No water, no RR 12. RR in basement for whole building!!