Notebook

Reading Assignments

Symposium

• Symposium Links

Rubric

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Child Labor and Child Labor Reform in American History 

• Mr. Coal's Story, an appeal to end child labor in coal mining
• The Story of My Cotton Dress

• Pictoral essay on coal mining in the 19th-century United States
• Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progessive Era

Early Labor Conflicts

1886: Haymarket Tragedy
• The Haymarket Tragedy
• 1886, May 4: Haymarket Tragedy - from the Chicago Public Library
• Famous American Trials: The Haymarket Affait


1892: Homestead Strike 

• The Homestead and Pullman Strikes
• The Strike at Homestead: 1892
• The Homestead Strike


1894: Pullman Strike

• The Pullman Strike: Chicago, 1894
• The Parable of Pullman
• Gene Debs and the American Railway Union
• The Homestead and Pullman Strikes


1909: Shirtwaist Makers' Strike - "Uprising of the 20,000" - 

• Primary Documents


1912: Lawrence Strike

• The Lawrence Strike: A Study - from the May 1912 Atlantic Monthly
• The 1912 Lawrence Strike - contains many documents


1914: Ludlow Massacre

• The Ludlow Massacre
• Ludlow Massacre - Song by Woody Guthrie
• The Ludlow Massacre - UMWA