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1 Big Business and Labor Chapter 14 – Sect. #3
Mitten – CSHS AMAZ History

2 Carnegie Makes a Fortune
New Business Strategies Carnegie searches for ways to make better products more cheaply – Bessemer process/steel production Hires talented staff; offers company stock; promotes competition Vertical integration – buys out suppliers to control materials Horizontal integration merges with competing companies

3 Social Darwinism & Business
Darwin’s theory of biological evolution; the best-adapted survive Social Darwinism, social evolution based on Darwin’s theory Economists use Social Darwinism to justify doctrine of laissez faire

4 Fewer Control More Growth and Consolidation
Businesses try to control industry with mergers; buy out competitors holding companies buy all the stock of other companies

5 Rockefeller and "Robber Barons"
Rockefeller profits by paying low wages and underselling others - John D. Rockefeller founds Standard Oil Company - controls market, raises prices Critics call industrialists robber barons Sherman Antitrust Act Government thinks expanding corporations stifle free competition Sherman Antitrust Act: trust illegal if interferes with free trade

6 Labor Unions Emerge Long Hours and Danger
Exploitation, unsafe conditions unite workers across regions Most workers have 12 hour days, 6 day workweeks perform repetitive, mind-numbing tasks no vacation, no sick leave, no injury compensation all family members, children included, must work

7 Union Movements Diverge
Craft Unionism Crafts unions – Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) AFL uses collective bargaining for better wages, hours, conditions Industrial Unionism Industrial unions include skilled, unskilled workers in an industry - Eugene V. Debs forms American Railway Union; uses strikes

8 Union Movements Diverge
Some labor activists turn to socialism government control of business, property equal distribution of wealth Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or wobblies, forms 1905 Organized by radical unionists, socialists

9 Strikes Turn Violent The Haymarket Affair
3000 gather at Chicago’s Haymarket Square; protest police brutality Violence ensues; 8 charged with inciting riot, convicted Public opinion turns against labor movement The Homestead Strike 1892, Carnegie Steel workers strike over pay cut Win battle against Pinkertons; National Guard reopens plant

10 Strikes Turn Violent Women Organize Mary Harris Jones – most prominent organizer in women’s labor works for United Mine Workers Management and Government Pressure Unions Legal limitations cripple unions; but membership rises 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire results in public outrage

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