HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Business Unionism, Deskilling, Craft Unionism
10 Sep 2017
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Recap and agenda: we talked about america"s new immigrants who helped to transform the us. Economy, landscape culture: nativism and immigration restriction. 1982 chinese exclusion act - first act that limits immigration: today we will discuss labor relations during the late 19th and early 20 century. Centrality of immigrants: theme of striking bodies . Review: changing labor conditions: industrialization, mechanization, scientific management. Large scale move to wage labor and urbanization: 1902: us urban> rural, very new. Deskilling and replaceable workers: lower wages: boom and bust age, getting money but getting hurt of jobs a lot and laid off without any prior notice. Radical uncertainty of economy: yearly wages rose between 1860 and 1890, but so did lay offs, industrial accidents, lack of safety regulations and enforcement in workplace. * graph: us is getting a lot richer due to cheap labor, due to child labor from rural and overseas.
