LABOR

WORKING CONDITIONS IN FACTORIES

• Poor conditions
• Long hours and low wages
• No safety regulations
• Child labor
• No unions or workers' rights

DANGER

• Machines were known for overheating
• Fires occured
• Factory owners would lock the doors
• There was low ventilation and no escape route
• Fumes and toxins caused illnesses and diseases

TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE

• 146 workers dies
• Many were women as young as 14
• Mostly Italian and European Jewish immigrants
• Many jumped out the windows because the door was locked

CHILD LABOR

• Children were used to repair machinery
• Children made up 6% of the workforce
• 1.75 million children were primary earners for their families
• Dangers of losing arms and limbs or even death

LABOR REFORMS

• Juvenile Protective Association
• 1938: Fair Labor Standards Act
• Muckraking (Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell)
• Industrial Laborism, One Big Union
• Recall and Referendum

Resources

• Boundless- Progressive Era: http://goo.gl/wzf4LO
• University of Iowa-Child Labor: http://goo.gl/pEkcct
• Cornell University- Triangle Fire: http://goo.gl/wtox9f
• Eastern Illinois University- Childhood Lost: http://goo.gl/SPdqoF
• Prezi by  Olivia Caine : http://goo.gl/inqRYF