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Big Biz Corp & Labor
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Labor Unions | Existence of organization shows that there were a lot of unhappy workers. |
| Laissez-Faire | The government should not tell business men what to do. |
| Labor | Government didn't tell business owners what to do. No laws for safety, minimum wage, discrimination. |
| Monopolies or Trusts | When one company dominates an industry and crushes the competition. Today they are illegal. |
| Robber barons | Ran the monopolies |
| Biggest Monopolies | Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, JP Morgan, John Hill. All saw monopolies as a good thing |
| Reasons why Monopolies were a thing | 1. Brought order and stability to the economy; Boom & bustages - economy would do really well & then bust 2. Social Darwinism: economy where only the fittest survive 3. Gospel of Wealth: anticipated by Andrew Carnegie; moral oblig to give money away. |
| Problems with Monopolies | 1. Stifle innovation: no incentive to improve products 2. Eliminate choice: no variety 3. Raise prices: can change whatever they wanted |
| Middle Class's reaction to Monopolies | Exploited by monopolies; by late 1800's started to learn Monopolies were a bad thing |
| Henry Demarest Lord | Wealth against common wealth; proved monopolies hurt the middle class; put pressure on congress |
| What congress did | New conditions for workers. 1. Mass production: mass produce goods in a factory, don't need skilled workers, not as much value. 2. Bad working conditions: no laws protecting workers. 3. Business hostility: don't see their workers as people. |
| 1877 Railroad strike | Decided to cut their workers wages so workers went on strike nationwide. Government sent in soldiers to break up strike. 1st national strike and served as a wake up call to the middle class |
| Knights of Labor | founded in 1969 by Terrance Powderly who got credit for it and became famous due to the successful strike against a railroad company. Disappeared by the 1880's. |
| What went wrong with Knights of Labor | 1. Terrence Powderly personality was a deep, poetic kind of guy, wanted to create a perfect world. 2. Powderly lost control of his union, every chapter did its own thing. 3. Companies refused to negotiate with them. |
| American Federation of Labor | Successful. Started as a union for angry workers in 1886 led by Samuel Gompers - who looked like a union leader. |
| AFL Rules | 1. Only accepted skilled workers. 2. High ones and high initiation fees - need resources. 3. A reluctance to go on strike - hard to go on strike, no pay, go on strike as a last resort. |
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