25 Feb Industry vs. labor during the Gilded Age(come up with a tittle)

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PROMPT: During the rapid industrialization of the U.S. at the end of the 19th century, conditions for workers were often dangerous and low-paid – and these conditions sometimes led to major strikes, such as the 1892 Homestead Strike. Based upon the sources you read, what were the opposing understandings of labor versus capital about how to address these problems? Another way to approach this is: how were the two groups’ views so different that they came into conflict?

(NEED INTRODUCTION + THESIS IN FIRST PARAGRAPH see file)

Hints: For our purposes, “labor” = ordinary workers and the labor unions they formed. “Capital” = big-business management / industrial leaders like Andrew Carnegie and Henry Frick. You may also want to discuss different approaches / strategies within labor, e.g. trade unionism / negotiating with management, versus socialism or anarchism.

Sources: (Draw upon – and CITE – at least two of the following in your essay.)

Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth” (1889)

Eugene V. Debs, “How I Became a Socialist” (1902)

Excerpt from Emma Goldman’s autobiography (1931)

on the Homestead strike Henry Frick interview from the Pittsburgh Post (1892)

See Files

no outside sources

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Use 12-point Times New Roman or Times font, double-spaced, and 1-inch margins Please put your thesis statement in bold type.

Please use page numbers.

Your paper must have a title specific to your argument or focus. A title page / cover page is NOT necessary.

Sources allowed and how to cite:

No “works cited” page / bibliography is required. To cite, use the parenthetical citation format described here (essentially MLA format).

Please cite ALL specific information / examples that you use in your essay, not just direct quotations. When in doubt, cite!

How to cite the documents (author + page[s]): (Please cite with the page numbers seen in the document PDF’s.)

EXAMPLES:

(Carnegie, 33)

(Debs, 72)

(Goldman, 2)

(Frick, 6)

(Wells, Crusade for Justice, 64)

(Wells, 1893 article)

(Stanton, 78)

(Addams, 117)

(Sanger, 119-20)

You may find it useful to use lecture notes or the Foner textbook, Give Me Liberty!, for background.

If you do so, please cite these as follows: (Orr, Lecture #2); (Foner, 200)

And for the Week 2 PBS website on the Homestead Strike: (PBS: The Strike at Homestead Mill)