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Industrial America in “The Gilded Age”

Industrial America in “The Gilded Age”. I. Captains of Industry. Robber Barons Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Steel Rockefeller & Standard Oil’s Monopoly Social Darwinism, Origin of Species (1859). Andrew Carnegie. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil. II. America’s New Labor Supply.

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Industrial America in “The Gilded Age”

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  1. Industrial America in “The Gilded Age”

  2. I. Captains of Industry • Robber Barons • Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Steel • Rockefeller & Standard Oil’s Monopoly • Social Darwinism, Origin of Species (1859)

  3. Andrew Carnegie

  4. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil

  5. II. America’s New Labor Supply • New Wave of Immigration, 1880 • Segmented Working Class • Dangerous Working and Living Conditions

  6. New Wave of Immigration, 1880 - 1915 • 1870 – 1880 = 2.8 million • 1880 – 1890 = 5.2 million

  7. Oyster Canning Factory, Alabama, 1911 Glass Worker, Virginia, 1911

  8. Globe Cotton Mill, 1909 Pennsylvania Coal Mine, 1911

  9. Women’s Factory Work

  10. III. Labor Strikes Back in the Gilded Age • Trade Unionism • Knights of Labor, Terence Powderly • Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, 1886 • American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers

  11. Knights of Labor Terence Powderly

  12. Haymarket Square Riot, 1886

  13. American Federation of Labor’s Samuel Gompers • Recruited U.S.-born Skilled workers • “Pure and Simple” Moderate Unionism

  14. What was it like to live in a city during the Gilded Age? Newberry Street, New York City, 1905

  15. Hester Street, New York City, 1904 New York City, 1899

  16. IV. Party Politics in the City: Bosses & Machines • Partisan Voters • City “Machines” and “Bosses” • New York’s Tammany Hall & Boss Tweed Boss Tweed

  17. Puck Magazine, 1894

  18. V. Poverty in the City • Ellis Island • Tenement Housing • Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) • Forms of Leisure Times Square, New York, 1904

  19. Ellis Island

  20. Ellis Island Medical Exam, 1913

  21. Angel Island Immigration Station

  22. Tenement Housing, New York City

  23. Tenement Apartment, New York, 1890s New York, 1910

  24. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

  25. Forms of Leisure: Coney Island, Brooklyn

  26. VI. Middle Class Society & Culture • Victorian Morality • Cult of Domesticity • Department Stores, “Palaces of Consumption” Tea room inside The Emporium, 1904

  27. Catherine Beecher’s The American Woman’s Home (1869) Behaviors to avoid: Reaching over another person’s plate; standing up to reach distant articles instead of asking to have those passed; using the table-cloth instead of napkins; eating fast and in a noisy manner; putting large pieces in the mouth; and picking the teeth at the table.

  28. Window Shopping outside Macy’s Macy’s, New York,1900 Dome of Marshall Fields, Chicago

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