Labor Unions Emerged



Urban tenements http://goo.gl/x6Sj6

In this entirety, labor unions were (good or bad) and why?
- Based upon what I have read, labor unions were good for the workers because the unions want to improve their lives. The workers did not like the way the factory owners treat them. They worked 12 or more hours a day, 6 days a week, without vacations. They worked in dirty poorly ventilated factories, and used dangerous and faulty equipment. Workers were underpayed, so they joined together as unions for their better working conditions.


Describe the sweatshops and how 146 women died in a fire & how it could have been prevented.


- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a sweatshop in which 146 seamstress died because the fire spreaded swiftly through the oil-soaked machines and the piles of clothes and also because all their doors were locked except for one of the exit doors. These deaths could have been prevented if the factory owners did not locked the doors and had a sprinkler system and had better working conditions.

What is a scab and why would unionized workers not like scabs?


Children working in factories http://goo.gl/tK5LX



- Monopolists did not want unions because the unions want better working conditions for the workers and the monopolists dont want to spend more money for the workers. Union members did not like scabs because they ruin the unionized workers' chance on getting a higher pay.



Describe the type of people who formed the IWW union. What does IWW mean?

- Many factory and sweatshop owners disliked the vision of unions like the IWW because they were socialists and they did not want to spend more money on better working conditions for the workers.