Together we will answer the BIG 3 questions together. You are responsible for the "section" you've been assigned. Here is the link: Gilded Age Labor
The Labor Movement and the Haymarket Affair
Paige, Sierra, Daisy
Wages and Nationalities in a Chicago Neighborhood
Josh, Dusty, C. Lewis
The Pullman Strike
Tori, Bessie, Joseph
Conditions in the Meatpacking Industry
Lindsey, Kierstan, Bethany
The Garment Workers’ Strike
David, C. Russell
Two Approaches to Organizing Labor
Jason, Brian, Cory
1. How does the article portray conditions in the garment industry? What do the strikers hope to achieve? It said that it was cramped, poorly lit workplaces, often set up in tenement buildings. Better work conditions and more....
ReplyDelete2.How did the city and, specifically, Chicago police respond to the protest?
Between 1880 and 1920, 20 percent of women over the age of 10 joined the paid labor force. In cities like New York and Chicago, a significant portion of these women worked in the garment industry as dressmakers and embroiderers. (Men worked in the garment industry as well, primarily as cloakmakers, cutters, and pressers, trades which were thought to require greater skill or the handling of heavy equipment.) Many of these women were recent immigrants who worked in sweatshops, cramped, poorly lit workplaces, often set up in tenement buildings. Sweatshop owners supplied material to larger factories. Women across the industry were grossly underpaid, whether they worked in small shops or large factories. Their wages could be as low as $3.00 per week for 60 to 84 hours of work. Garment workers were among the first women to form unions.
Well since that it doesnt say any thing about the police in this...unable to answer.
3.Examine the images that accompany the article. How do they portray the workers and their demonstration? Well it appears to look like there unhappy and it show how the police tryed to take over the crowd...
Caleb Russell 11/30/2012
Between 1880 and 1920, 20 percent of women over the age of 10 joined the paid labor force. In cities like New York and Chicago, a significant portion of these women worked in the garment industry as dressmakers and embroiderers. (Men worked in the garment industry as well, primarily as cloakmakers, cutters, and pressers, trades which were thought to require greater skill or the handling of heavy equipment.) Many of these women were recent immigrants who worked in sweatshops, cramped, poorly lit workplaces, often set up in tenement buildings. Sweatshop owners supplied material to larger factories. Women across the industry were grossly underpaid, whether they worked in small shops or large factories. Their wages could be as low as $3.00 per week for 60 to 84 hours of work. Garment workers were among the first women to form unions.
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1. How does the article portray conditions in the garment industry? What do the strikers hope to achieve?
worked in sweatshops, cramped, poorly lit workplaces, often set up in tenement buildings. Sweatshop owners supplied material to larger factories. Women across the industry were grossly underpaid, whether they worked in small shops or large factories. Their wages could be as low as $3.00 per week for 60 to 84 hours of work they want better working conditions and paid more.
2. How did the city and, specifically, Chicago police respond to the protest? The police department did violence to the women and people that went on strick.
3. Examine the images that accompany the article. How do they portray the workers and their demonstration?
-Tori Applegate 3rd Period
ReplyDelete1. Examine the drawings of the “Burning of Six Hundred Freight-Cars” and “The Great Chicago Strike,” which appeared in different publications. What is happening in these scenes? How do demonstrators and soldiers appear in the images?
In the “Burning of Six Hundred Freight-Cars” the images shows destruction of Pullman cars in response to industrialist, George Pullman, laying off workers and slashing wages during an economic downturn. In the picture the soldiers are presented as the good guys and the demonstrators are the bad guy.
In “The Great Chicago Strike” the image shows soliders standing on a trailer shooting into a mob of demonstrators. The soldiers are presented as the good guy while the demonstrators are the bad guys.
2. Consider the two Harper’s Weekly covers representing Debs and the strikers. How do these illustrations portray Debs? Do they encourage sympathy for Pullman or for ARU workers? On what grounds do they criticize Debs and other labor organizers?
They portray Debs as the bad guy which shows that they sympathize with Pullman because they didn’t think that they should be allowed to boycott.
3. What is the stance taken by the final, editorial cartoon from the Chicago Herald? On what grounds does it seem to criticize George Pullman?
It shows Debs sitting on top of a railroad bridge this shows that he is controlling who gets to cross and who doesn’t.
For the most part, these are wonderful answers. Please go back and make sure that you've answered ALL of the questions (it seems like there are a few that you might have overlooked). Some of these questions you may have to INFER based on the evidence. this is hard, but you can do it!
Delete2 continued. They portray the strikers as being the bad guys because in both pictures they show them as a mob while the show the soldiers as trying to keep the peace like when the are holding back the mob and putting out the fires or how they show the soilders fighting the strikers of and carrying away injured soldiers. Since they portray the soldiers as the good guys this means they are siding with Pullman because the soldiers are on Pullman's side.
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ReplyDeleteExamine the Wage Map closely. (Note: Weekly household earning of $5.00 in 1890 is approximately equivalent to $124.00 in 2010. Twenty dollars in 1890 is comparable to $494.00 in 2010.) What conclusions can you draw about the economic status of the people who lived in this neighborhood? What patterns do you notice in the locations of each income group?
People to the left of the map make more money than people to the right. The neighborhood is divided by the amount of money people have.
2. Examine the Nationalities Map closely. Which ethnicities and races are represented here and in what proportions? (Please note: Bohemian refers to people now known as Czech.) What criteria were used to define each group? On what basis do you think the map’s creator decided which color to assign each group?
Races are diverse through the neighborhood. Honestly I can’t read these pictures its too small and blurry, all I can tell is that it’s blurry.
3. What patterns do you notice in the distribution of specific ethnic groups throughout the neighborhood? Are groups evenly dispersed? What do you find surprising about the neighborhood’s composition?
Ethnicities are fairly diverse. People that aren’t white are generally put together from what I can tell.
4. Consider the two maps together. What patterns do you see? Do wages and nationalities correspond in any ways?
Non-Caucasian people tend to make more than other races. Other races/ethnicities make less.
Please answer each of the questions. You generally do a great job of analyzing information. I need you to step up and do that for me with these documents.
Deletejosh Bradford
ReplyDelete1. Examine the Wage Map closely. (Note: Weekly household earning of $5.00 in 1890 is approximately equivalent to $124.00 in 2010. Twenty dollars in 1890 is comparable to $494.00 in 2010.) What conclusions can you draw about the economic status of the people who lived in this neighborhood? What patterns do you notice in the locations of each income group? That worker on the left got more money than on the right side on the map.
2. Examine the Nationalities Map closely. Which ethnicities and races are represented here and in what proportions? (Please note: Bohemian refers to people now known as Czech.) What criteria were used to define each group? On what basis do you think the map’s creator decided which color to assign each group? On Caucasian and Non-Caucasian
3. What patterns do you notice in the distribution of specific ethnic groups throughout the neighborhood? Are groups evenly dispersed? What do you find surprising about the neighborhood’s composition? That the worker get money based on the race, and side of living.
4. Consider the two maps together. What patterns do you see? Do wages and nationalities correspond in any ways? That both maps are sorted into different parts, no.
Thanks you for posting. You need to be sure to answer EACH question and support your answers with evidence from the documents!
DeleteDustin McClurg
ReplyDelete1. Examine the Wage Map closely. (Note: Weekly household earning of $5.00 in 1890 is approximately equivalent to $124.00 in 2010. Twenty dollars in 1890 is comparable to $494.00 in 2010.) What conclusions can you draw about the economic status of the people who lived in this neighborhood? What patterns do you notice in the locations of each income group?
I can’t see what the map says but I’m guessing that these people were rich.
2. Examine the Nationalities Map closely. Which ethnicities and races are represented here and in what proportions? (Please note: Bohemian refers to people now known as Czech.) What criteria were used to define each group? On what basis do you think the map’s creator decided which color to assign each group?
Caucasian and not Caucasian.
3. What patterns do you notice in the distribution of specific ethnic groups throughout the neighborhood? Are groups evenly dispersed? What do you find surprising about the neighborhood’s composition?
The ethnicity groups are all in one group.
4. Consider the two maps together. What patterns do you see? Do wages and nationalities correspond in any ways?
People on the left had more money than the people on the right side of the map.
Dusty, You need to answer all of the questions. A single sentence answer to a set of three questions doesn't do justice to the documents. Please support your answers with evidence from the documents. Otherwise, good job.
Delete1. What are the principles and goals of the Knights of Labor, as outlined in this document? Which, if any, of their goals do you consider reasonable? Which, if any, do you consider unreasonable?
ReplyDeleteThe Knights of labor their principles and goals was to make their jobs fair so they won’t have unfair treatment when they at their job. They wanted to make it safe and the wanted fewer days to work and stuff like that.
2. Examine the broadside advertising the Haymarket rally. What can you learn about the rally’s audience and purpose from this broadside?
We can learn that people were very upset with the whole unfair treatment at their work they were very upset that someone had died because of this cause. The purpose of this ad was to let everyone know what was going on and how they could come out and help.
3. Examine the Harper’s cover illustration from the week following the Haymarket demonstration. The full title reads: “Too Heavy a Load for the Trades-Unions. The Competent Workman Must Support the Incompetent.” The label “Agitators” appears on the sleeve of the man carrying the whip. What is the illustrator’s interpretation of the workers’ strikes and demonstrations?
That everything was falling apart people was getting hurt and the police was getting involved that this was becoming very upsetting.
Bessie Beckett 12/3/12
ReplyDelete1) Examine the drawings of the “Burning of Six Hundred Freight-Cars” and “The Great Chicago Strike,” which appeared in different publications. What is happening in these scenes? How do demonstrators and soldiers appear in the images?
In Burning of Six Hundred Freight-Cars the image depicts the destruction of Pullman cars in response to industrialist, George Pullman, laying off workers and slashing wages during an economic downturn. In The Great Chicago Strike the image depicts militiamen firing into a crowd of striking Pullman factory workers during the Pullman Strike. The soldiers look as if they enjoy shooting their guns in “The Great Chicago Strike”. In “Burning of Six Hundred Freight-Cars” the people look as if they are mad.
2) Consider the two Harper’s Weekly covers representing Debs and the strikers. How do these illustrations portray Debs? Do they encourage sympathy for Pullman or for ARU workers? On what grounds do they criticize Debs and other labor organizers?
When i look at one of the Harper’s weekly i feel like Debs was the ruler of something. When i look at the Harper’s weekly in my section I see a figure that is sitting on a railroad bridge. This represents the leader “Eugene” versus Debs. No, they do not show any sympathy for Pullman or for ARU workers. “The American Railway Union (ARU) threw its support behind the Pullman strikers by initiating a national boycott of the Pullman Company.”
3) What is the stance taken by the final, editorial cartoon from the Chicago Herald? On what grounds does it seem to criticize George Pullman?
The cartoon from the Chicago Herald is a response to industrialist, George Pullman, laying off workers and slashing wages during an economic downturn. “The federal government, under President Grover Cleveland, intervened in the crisis; first, by requesting a court injunction forbidding the boycott and, then, by sending soldiers to Chicago and elsewhere to enforce the injunction. The ARU’s leader, Eugene V. Debs, was arrested and imprisoned for promoting the boycott. By mid-July, both the strike and the union had been broken, but not without considerable violence. Pullman himself came under widespread criticism for underpaying his workers and refusing to negotiate.”
Siearra Lanthorn
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The Labor Movement and the Haymarket Affair
1.) What are the principles and goals of the Knights of Labor, as outlined in this document? Which, if any, of their goals do you consider reasonable? Which, if any, do you consider unreasonable?
The Knights of Labor: To organize and direct the power of industrial masses, not as a political party for it is more.
2.) Examine the broadside advertising the Haymarket rally. What can you learn about the rally’s audience and purpose from this broadside?
The rally seemed like a big deal and everyone took it seriously. It is a meeting about the shooting of their fellow-workman the day before.
3.) Examine the Harper’s cover illustration from the week following the Haymarket demonstration. The full title reads: “Too Heavy a Load for the Trades-Unions. The Competent Workman Must Support the Incompetent.” The label “Agitators” appears on the sleeve of the man carrying the whip. What is the illustrator’s interpretation of the workers’ strikes and demonstrations?
The illustrator’s interpretation of the workers’ strikes is that they were having all the workers be practically slaves to them so they won’t have to do any work at all because it shows the “workers” holding a whip on the “slaves” shoulders while they are doing their work for them.