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Big Business: By: Cecilia Bean

This document summarizes the rise of big business in America through industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. It discusses concepts like Social Darwinism that justified business practices and wealth inequality. It then covers the emergence of labor unions to fight unsafe conditions, long hours, low pay, and injuries. Various union movements are mentioned like the Knights of Labor that organized all workers and the IWW that used socialist ideals. Finally, it discusses how management and government put pressure on unions through intimidation tactics and laws.

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Big Business: By: Cecilia Bean

This document summarizes the rise of big business in America through industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. It discusses concepts like Social Darwinism that justified business practices and wealth inequality. It then covers the emergence of labor unions to fight unsafe conditions, long hours, low pay, and injuries. Various union movements are mentioned like the Knights of Labor that organized all workers and the IWW that used socialist ideals. Finally, it discusses how management and government put pressure on unions through intimidation tactics and laws.

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Big Business

Part 1
By: Cecilia Bean

Carnegies Innovations
Andrew Carnegies background:
- came to America when he was 12
-became private secretary in the Pennsylvania railroad business
-from rags-to-riches
-gave money to public libraries
Innovations:
-left his job to enter the steel business
-manufactured more steel than all the factories in Great Britain
New Business Strategies:
-make better products more cheaply
-attracted talented people
-encouraged competition
-gain control

Social Darwinism
Principles of Social Darwinism:
- Charles Darwins theory of biological evolution
- laissez faire
A New Definition of Success:
- premise of survival and success
- rich people= God loves you, poor people= you get what
you get

Fewer Control More


- entrepreneurs
- mergers
- monopoly
- holding company
- J.P. Morgan
- John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller and the Robber Barons:
- refining business
- low wages
- competitive tactics
-Sherman Antitrust Act

Big Business
part 2

Tessa Ganellen

Labor unions emerge because of.


-Unsafe working
conditions
-Exploitation
*Skilled and unskilled,
female and male, black
and white joined together
to improve their lives

-Long hours

-No vacation
-No sick days
-Injuries
-Low wages

Early Labor Organizing...


-First National
Organization of Labor
=NATIONAL LABOR
UNION

Links existing unions


Also CNLU=colored
national labor union

EXP. Knights of Labor

an injury to one is the concern of all


-All workers
-Created by Uriah
Stephens

-equal pay, 8 hour work


day

Union movements divulge...

Craft Unionism
-Members= skilled
workers from one or
more trades

Industrial Unionism
Members= Skilled and
unskilled workers

Socialism
Unions turned to Socialism to solve the
problems of the workers

IWW AKA Industrial workers of the world


Headed by William Haywood

=miners, lumberers, dock workers


Use socialism

Just so you know...


There are other labor activism in the WEST!
Mostly from minorities

Strikes turn Violent!


Great strike of 1877
Haymarket Affair
The Homestead act

Great Strike
of 1877

Haymarket
Affair

Homestead
strike
Strike
against steel
company

Pullman
Company
Strike

Women Organize
Women organize to fight forEqual pay
end of child labor
better working conditions

Marry Harris Jones

Prominent organizer for


the United Mine
Workers of America

Management and Gov. Pressure Union


-Employers fear unions
-Employers (1) forbade union meetings, (2)
fired union members and (3) made them sign
yellow-dog contracts.
-(4) Sherman Antitrust act against Labor

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