Accountability:
For this lesson you will be held accountable for the classwork, which includes the Activity and Exit Ticket below.
Topic: Labor Organizes
Learning Objective: You will be able to determine why people forced industries to change dangerous working conditions.
Do Now: Picture Analysis
Picture 1
Picture 2
Questions:
1.Examine the first picture;
write down 5 things you see.
2.Examine the second picture; write down 5 things you see.
3.How are the conditions of the workspace in
the first picture compared to the workspace in the second picture?
Direct Instruction:
Labor Force:
Labor Force:
The New Working Class:
·Newly Arriving Immigrants
o By 1900 1/3 of all industrial workers
were foreign born
·Men, Women, and even Children.
Working
Conditions:
What
were the labor conditions of the industrial workers in the late 19th
century?
·Long hours – 12 Hour days
·Many days – Often worked 6 days a
week.
·Little Pay – Made pennies an hour
made around $10 a week.
·Few benefits, if any.
Types
of Jobs:
Jobs
Available:
•African
American
coal miner
•Child
textile mill worker
•Mexican
cannery worker
•Hungarian
shoe-factory worker
•Italian
garment worker
•Chinese
railroad
worker
Video: Charlie Chaplin Factory
Worker
Questions:
1.What is Charlie Chaplin’s job?
2.What were the workers expected to do
constantly?
3.Did the workers receive enough
time to rest?
4.What job did the management seem to have?
Activity:
•Role
play the following figures in the late 1800s.
–African
American coal miner
–Child
textile mill worker
–Mexican
cannery worker
–Hungarian
shoe-factory worker
–Italian
garment worker
–Chinese
railroad worker
•Explain
the following
in a paragraph:
–Their
job
–Working
conditions
–Family
economic situations
–Job
opportunities.
Summary/ Exit Ticket:
Describe
working life for most industrial laborers
in
the
late 19th
century America.
