4.3: Organized Labor Movement

Chapter 4 Section 3: The Organized Labor Movement

• Look at the Section Focus Questions  (p.114).  Think about these as we read the section.

1. A Changing Workforce (p.115): Describe the growth in the industrial workforce between 1860 and 1900.
2. Technology and Society (p.116): Transfer Activities #1 & 2
3. Showing Loyalties (p.117): Do you think employers allowed workers to display such items at work?  Explain.
4. Checkpoint (p.118): How did various labor unions differ in their goals?
5. Analyzing Political Cartoons (p.119): #1 & 2
6. Thinking Critically (p.120): #1 & 2
7. Checkpoint (p.121): Why did workers increasingly turn to th estrike as a tactic to win labor gains?
8. Complete Section 3 Assessment items:
• Add Terms and People to your list.
• Answer questions 4, 5 & 6

  9.  If labor unions had not come about, would these conditions continued on?  Explain as "Video Response" on your paper.

Instead of a test for this chapter, I simply want you to complete the Chapter Assessment on page 124 by answering the 16 questions.  You can do this for homework.

Click to download PDF