Industrial Workers Corporations leading to poor working conditions. Attempting to: Maximizing Profits Becoming more efficient Workers organizing, demanding: Better working conditions Higher wages Strikes often became violent. Failed to accomplish goals.

Maximizing Profits Machines – eliminating jobs of skilled workers Specialization

Frederick W. Taylor Influenced business managers to view workers as interchangeable parts Encouraged managers to care less about workers

Workers Organize Labor Unions Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor Collective Bargaining Strikes Often put down by business owners and states Became violent

What Workers Wanted: Better hours Safer conditions Higher wages No child labor Equal pay for equal work