Problem: Workers had few rights while they were working in factories.
Key Terms that need be included in the Project:
Labor Union
Actions (strike, boycott, slowdown, etc.)
Samuel Gompers
Pullman Strike
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Child Labor
Resources:
The New Working Class (Answers all 3 questions)
Citation: Author: Boyer and Stuckey et al.; Date : 2001; Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Conditions of the Working Class (Answers all 3 questions)
Citation: Author: Diane Hart; Date: 2008; Publisher: TCI
Workers Rights Primary Source Documents (Answers question #1)
Methods Used by Labor Unions (Answers question #2)
Citation: Author: Jeremy Buehl; Date: 2022
Children Who Worked (Answers question #1)
Citation: Author: Ira Peck; Date: 1986; Publisher: Scholastic
How a Deadly Railroad Strike led to Labor Day Holiday (Answers all 3 questions)
Samuel Gompers Biography (Answers all 3 questions)
Pullman Strike (Answers all 3 questions)
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (Answers all 3 questions)
Essential Research Questions
What was the problem that your activist group was trying to improve? (Standard #1B)
What methods/strategies did they use to try to solve this problem? (Standard #1B)
How effective/successful was this group at creating change and why? (Standard #1A and #1C)
How are activists today trying to solve problems that are similar or related to your topic? (Standard #4)
Modern Day Connections for Question #4