Week of January 31, Monday Lecture

I. Pre-industrial Work

• .Farmers
  IMAGE: Independent Farmer
• Artisans And Craftsman
  IMAGE: Tinworker, c. 1860
  IMAGE: Woodworker
• Day Laborers
  IMAGE: Orchard Workers
• Careers And Mobility

III. Industrial Labor Force

• Early Factories
• Skilled Workers
  IMAGE: Chicago Meatpacking Plant
• Question of Worker's Control

IV. The Assembly Line

IMAGE: Ford Auto Plant, 1913
IMAGE: Ford Assembly Line c. 1920

V. The New Proletariat

IMAGE: Textile Mill Worker
IMAGE: Carnegie Steel Management
IMAGE: Breaker Boys

VI. How Do Workers Protect Themselves Under These Conditions?

VII. Unions

VIII. Labor Conflict

• Great Railway Strike of 1877
  IMAGE: Drawing of a West Virginia Strike Scene
• 1886: Haymarket
  IMAGE: The Haymarket Bombing
  IMAGE: Terence Powderly, Knights of Labor
• 1892: Homestead, PA
  IMAGE: Carnegie Steel, Homestead
  IMAGE: Henry Clay Frick
• 1894: Pullman Strike
  IMAGE: Strike Scene in Chicago
  IMAGE: Eugene Debs

IX. The Limitations of Nineteenth-century Unionism

X. Why So Little Organization?

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