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Module One Lesson Six Activity

The document summarizes a student activity where students read about working conditions in the US at the turn of the 20th century and analyzed a primary source document on the topic. It instructs students to describe working conditions, discuss whether there was a need for unions, name their primary source, and provide examples from it. It then shows a student's response where they argued unions were needed due to skills being replaced by machines, long hours and low pay, and lack of worker representation. The student cited a Library of Congress article on late 19th century work as their primary source and included several examples from it on how machines impacted work.

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Module One Lesson Six Activity

The document summarizes a student activity where students read about working conditions in the US at the turn of the 20th century and analyzed a primary source document on the topic. It instructs students to describe working conditions, discuss whether there was a need for unions, name their primary source, and provide examples from it. It then shows a student's response where they argued unions were needed due to skills being replaced by machines, long hours and low pay, and lack of worker representation. The student cited a Library of Congress article on late 19th century work as their primary source and included several examples from it on how machines impacted work.

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Module One Lesson Six Activity

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Directions: After the information on working conditions in the United States at the turn of the
twentieth century and reading one of the primary source documents from the American Memory or
the Industrial Revolution Primary Source Set by the Library of Congress, please fill out the
following:

A Description of the Was There A Need for Name of Primary List specific examples
Working Conditions in Labor Unions Why or Source Document from your primary
the United States at Why Not? Selected (10 points) source document to
the Turn of the (30 points) defend your argument
Twentieth Century (30 points)
That Gave Rise to
Labor Unions
(30 points)
During the late 19th I think that there was a Work in the Late 19th ● By the 1870s,
century, the use of need for labor unions. Century: machines were
machines became Skillful workers were https://www.loc.gov/ knitting stockings
more popular. replaced by machines, classroom-materials/ and stitching
Machines started and then forced to united-states-history- shirts and
making clothes, shoes, work dreadful long primary-source- dresses, cutting
etc. This caused lower hours. Their lives were timeline/rise-of- and stitching
Module [word form] Lesson [word form] [Label]
Google Doc Access Directions:
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prices, but created a not valued in the industrial-america- leather for


rapid production of workplace. Workers 1876-1900/work-in- shoes, and
products. This needed a voice and late-19th-century/ producing nails
decreased representation in the by the millions.
craftsmanship, and led workplace. Labor ● Machine
to workers doing unions provided that production
single tasks. All of this for workers and fought created a
led to increased work for livable wages and growing
hours and little pay. As better work hours. abundance of
a result, workers products at
started to join labor cheaper prices.
unions. This ● Machines, on the
other hand,
tended to
subdivide
production down
into many small
repetitive tasks
with workers
often doing only
a single task.
● The pace of

[course name]
Module [word form] Lesson [word form] [Label]
Google Doc Access Directions:
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work usually
became faster
and faster; work
was often
performed in
factories built to
house the
machines.
Finally, factory
managers began
to enforce an
industrial
discipline,
forcing workers
to work set hours
which were often
very long.
●

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