Immigration: Immigration: Factories and Child Factories and Child LaborLabor

Child LaborChild Labor

How do you think these children felt?How do you think these children felt? What do you think was going through What do you think was going through

their mind?their mind? Why would parents make their children Why would parents make their children

work in places like this?work in places like this? What would you have done if you had to What would you have done if you had to

work in one of these factories?work in one of these factories?

Child LaborChild Labor Many factories were Many factories were unsafeunsafe and very and very

dirty.dirty. Most workers were Most workers were forcedforced to work long to work long

hours at very little pay.hours at very little pay. Many children were forced to work in Many children were forced to work in

these factories so they could help their these factories so they could help their families make families make moneymoney..

Most immigrant children did not go to Most immigrant children did not go to schoolschool..

Remember the Remember the “Newsies?” “Newsies?”

Conditions in the factories started being shown by popular newspapers and magazines.

Many were illustrated with photographs showing the unsafe working conditions.

Now predict what you Now predict what you think needs to be think needs to be done to solve the done to solve the

problems created by problems created by Industrialization.Industrialization.

So what actually So what actually happened?happened?

LaborLabor unions were created in the unions were created in the US!US!

What is a Labor Union?What is a Labor Union?

A labor union is an organization A labor union is an organization of of workersworkers who have grouped who have grouped together to achieve common together to achieve common goals in things like wages, goals in things like wages, hours, and working conditions. hours, and working conditions.

Labor UnionsLabor Unions

Labor unions would work Labor unions would work together to get things they together to get things they thought were thought were fairfair..

If the managers of the industries If the managers of the industries did not listen, workers would go did not listen, workers would go on on strikestrike..