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Describe the historical background surrounding industrialization. Use evidence from documents 5a, 5b, and 6 to support your answer.

Describe the historical background surrounding industrialization. Use evidence from documents 5a, 5b, and 6 to support your answer.

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Describe the historical background surrounding industrialization. Use evidence from documents 5a, 5b, and 6 to support your answer.
Document 5a ...We demand a reduction of the hours of labor which would give a due share of work and wages to the reserve army of labor [the unemployed] and eliminate many of the worst abuses of the industrial system now filling our poor houses and jails. The movement for the reduction of the hours of labor is contemporaneous with the introduction of labor saving machinery and has been the most faithful of all reformatory attempts of modern times, since it has clearly revealed the power of the working people to realize an improved industrial system and raises the hope that we may yet be able to stem the tide of economic, social and moral degradations, robbing those who work of four-fifths of their natural wages and keeping the whole of society within a few months of destitution. ... That the lives and limbs of the wage-workers shall be regarded as sacred as those of all others of our fellow human beings; that an injury or destruction of either by reason of negligence or maliciousness of another, shall not leave him without redress simply because he is a wage worker. We demand equality before the law, in fact as well as in theory..... And by no means the least demand of the Trade Unions is for adequate wages. ... Document 5b Thousands of Members 1400 1300 1000 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 The Growth of Union Membership, 1878-1904 Wabash Railroad Source: Samuel Gompers, What Does Labor Want?, 1893 Strike Haymarket Riot A 1880 1882 1984 1986 118919 1890 1802 1804 Key 1806 Pullman Strike 1898 11900 1902 1904 Total Nationwide Union Membership American Federation of Labor Source: Gerald A. Danzer et al. The Amencans. McDougall Littell, 1998 (adapted) Knights of Labor American Railway Union
Transcribed Image Text:Document 5a ...We demand a reduction of the hours of labor which would give a due share of work and wages to the reserve army of labor [the unemployed] and eliminate many of the worst abuses of the industrial system now filling our poor houses and jails. The movement for the reduction of the hours of labor is contemporaneous with the introduction of labor saving machinery and has been the most faithful of all reformatory attempts of modern times, since it has clearly revealed the power of the working people to realize an improved industrial system and raises the hope that we may yet be able to stem the tide of economic, social and moral degradations, robbing those who work of four-fifths of their natural wages and keeping the whole of society within a few months of destitution. ... That the lives and limbs of the wage-workers shall be regarded as sacred as those of all others of our fellow human beings; that an injury or destruction of either by reason of negligence or maliciousness of another, shall not leave him without redress simply because he is a wage worker. We demand equality before the law, in fact as well as in theory..... And by no means the least demand of the Trade Unions is for adequate wages. ... Document 5b Thousands of Members 1400 1300 1000 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 The Growth of Union Membership, 1878-1904 Wabash Railroad Source: Samuel Gompers, What Does Labor Want?, 1893 Strike Haymarket Riot A 1880 1882 1984 1986 118919 1890 1802 1804 Key 1806 Pullman Strike 1898 11900 1902 1904 Total Nationwide Union Membership American Federation of Labor Source: Gerald A. Danzer et al. The Amencans. McDougall Littell, 1998 (adapted) Knights of Labor American Railway Union
Document 6 60% 40 20 0 Share of income going to the top 10% Union membership 1925 1950 1975 2000 Source: Jacobin Magazine
Transcribed Image Text:Document 6 60% 40 20 0 Share of income going to the top 10% Union membership 1925 1950 1975 2000 Source: Jacobin Magazine
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