Activity 2: Extended Research

Use books and online resources to find out more about:

• conflict between skilled and unskilled workers in the nineteenth-century labor movement.
• nineteenth-century labor activists such as Ira Steward, Kate Mullaney, Samuel Gompers, and Mary Kenney O’Sullivan.
• the relationship between the woman’s rights and labor movements.
• the relationship between the labor movement and immigration patterns. (Use the search tools on Mass Moments website to find stories about immigration to Massachusetts.)
• attitude of mainstream union leaders towards African American workers? Towards women workers?
• onditions for child workers in nineteenth and early twentieth century Massachusetts.
• history of child labor laws in Massachusetts and other states.
• status of child labor around the world today (regulations, abuses, and efforts to improve conditions)