American History Chapter 6: The Expansion of American Industry

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American History Chapter 6 The Expansion of
American Industry

• III. Industrialization and Workers

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Objectives of Lesson Key Concepts

• What factors led to a growing American work force
  between 1860 1900?
• What was factory work like at the turn of the
  century?
• Why was it necessary for entire families to work?

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Attention Getter

• Students, write down the words and phrases that
  you associate with the idea of work. Then circle
  all the positive words and phrases on their list.
• How many are there verses negative words?

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Recall Prior Knowledge

• Why did people come to work in industry?

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Setting the Scene

• What do you know about child labor in the US in
  the late 1800s?
• Are children permitted to work in this country
  today?
• Do other countries in the world permit child
  labor?
• Read the quote by Sadie Frowne found on page 243
  of your textbook.
• What is your opinion on child labor?

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A) The Growing Work Force

• Most of the new work force is immigrants and
  farmers
• Immigrant are people who move to this country
  from another country
• Farmers moved to the cities because of poor
  economic conditions in the rural areas.

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B) Factory Work

• 10 -12 hour work day 6 days a week
• piecework those who worked the fastest and
  produced the most pieces earned the most money
• Sweatshops place where employees worked long
  hours at low wages with poor working conditions
• Frederick Winslow Taylor studied workers
  movements to improve efficiency. He
  choreographed movement so there would be no
  wasted time or energy. In other words more work
  less pay. It worked so people were actually laid
  off because workers were more efficient.

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a) The Division of Labor

• Division of labor workers performed only one
  small task, over and over efficient but boring

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b) The Work Environment

• Discipline was strict fined for being late
  talking or refusing to do a task
• Not safe fatigue, bad equipment, careless
  training no shortage of labor though
• Jacob Riis wrote Children of the Poor, gave a
  very accurate and critical look of children
  workers helped stop the practice of children in
  the workplace.
• Pictures children in the workplace

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C) Working Families

• Children helped feed the family
• Left school at 12
• Mothers left children with family
• Illness or accident of mother, father or older
  siblings meant 6 year olds had to work.
• Unemployment insurance did not exist. Workmans
  compensation did not exist.
• Social Darwinist believed that poverty resulted
  from personal weakness unemployment money would
  encourage idleness.
• Picture after the workday and family dinner
  this family sits down to work on a second job
  before bedtime.

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Summarize and Review

• What factors led to a growing American work force
  between 1860 and 1900?
• What was factory work like at the turn of the
  century?
• Why was it necessary for entire families to work?

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Process Information

• On a scratch piece of paper, write down a
  schedule for a 17 year old workers daily life
  during the turn of the century. Then write down
  your schedule for today.

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Finished Section 6.3

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  completed
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