5 Industrialization/Early U.S. Workers Movement

Primary Source Text: Albert Parsons autobiography, one of the Haymarket martyrs, highly recommended: https://famous-trials.com/haymarket/1170-parsonsautobiography

Primary Source Text: Adolph Strasser, one of Samuel Gompers allies, on “pure and simple unionism”: https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5037/

Primary Source Text: Famous essay by Frederick Winslow Taylor on scientific management: http://americainclass.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Taylor-Scientific-Management-1910-excerpt.pdf

Primary Source Photos: Lewis Hines photos on child labor: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hnintro.htm

Documentary: Mine Wars, documentary on a slightly later period (though it doesn’t seem like it). Not open source, but often available and free if they sign up for a trial of PBS documentaries: https://www.amazon.com/American-Experience-Mine-Michael-Murphy/dp/B01B28WH8Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1495213047&sr=1-1&keywords=the+mine+wars

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