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Introduction<\/h2>\nIndustrialization remade the United States. At the turn of the twentieth century, powerful capitalists, middle class managers, and industrial and agricultural labors confronted a new world of work and labor in the United States. While many benefited from the material gains of technological progress, others\u00a0found themselves trapped in cycles of poverty and hopelessness and strikes, protests, and political warfare rocked American life as workers adjusted themselves to a\u00a0new industrial order. The following sources explore the mindsets of American suddenly confronted with a new world of concentrated\u00a0capital and industrial labor.\n

The Tournament of Today \u2013 A Set-To Between Labor and Monopoly<\/h2>\n
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\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1000\"]\"Image<\/a> Friedrich Graetz, \u201cThe Tournament of Today \u2013 A Set-To Between Labor and Monopoly.\u201d August 1, 1883.\u00a0Via Library of Congress (LC-DIG-ppmsca-28412).[\/caption]\n\n
\n\nThis print shows a jousting tournament between an oversized knight riding horse-shaped armor labeled \u201cMonopoly\u201d over a locomotive, with a long plume labeled \u201cArrogance\u201d, and carrying a shield labeled \u201cCorruption of the Legislature\u201d and a lance labeled \u201cSubsidized Press\u201d, and a barefoot man labeled \u201cLabor\u201d riding an emaciated horse labeled \u201cPoverty\u201d, and carrying a sledgehammer labeled \u201cStrike\u201d. On the left is seating \u201cReserved for Capitalists\u201d where Cyrus W. Field, William H. Vanderbilt, John Roach, Jay Gould, and Russell Sage are sitting. On the right, behind the labor section, are telegraph lines flying monopoly banners that are labeled \u201cWall St., W.U.T. Co., [and] N.Y.C. RR\u201d.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lawrence Textile Strike (1912)<\/h2>\n
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\n\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1000\"]\"Photo<\/a> Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912. Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-23725.[\/caption]\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In 1912, The International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the \u201cWobblies\u201d) organized textile workers in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts. This photo shows strikers, carrying American flags, confronting strikebreakers and\u00a0militia bayonets.<\/p>","rendered":"

Introduction<\/h2>\n

Industrialization remade the United States. At the turn of the twentieth century, powerful capitalists, middle class managers, and industrial and agricultural labors confronted a new world of work and labor in the United States. While many benefited from the material gains of technological progress, others\u00a0found themselves trapped in cycles of poverty and hopelessness and strikes, protests, and political warfare rocked American life as workers adjusted themselves to a\u00a0new industrial order. The following sources explore the mindsets of American suddenly confronted with a new world of concentrated\u00a0capital and industrial labor.<\/p>\n

The Tournament of Today \u2013 A Set-To Between Labor and Monopoly<\/h2>\n
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Friedrich Graetz, \u201cThe Tournament of Today \u2013 A Set-To Between Labor and Monopoly.\u201d August 1, 1883.\u00a0Via Library of Congress (LC-DIG-ppmsca-28412).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This print shows a jousting tournament between an oversized knight riding horse-shaped armor labeled \u201cMonopoly\u201d over a locomotive, with a long plume labeled \u201cArrogance\u201d, and carrying a shield labeled \u201cCorruption of the Legislature\u201d and a lance labeled \u201cSubsidized Press\u201d, and a barefoot man labeled \u201cLabor\u201d riding an emaciated horse labeled \u201cPoverty\u201d, and carrying a sledgehammer labeled \u201cStrike\u201d. On the left is seating \u201cReserved for Capitalists\u201d where Cyrus W. Field, William H. Vanderbilt, John Roach, Jay Gould, and Russell Sage are sitting. On the right, behind the labor section, are telegraph lines flying monopoly banners that are labeled \u201cWall St., W.U.T. Co., [and] N.Y.C. RR\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Lawrence Textile Strike (1912)<\/h2>\n
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Lawrence Textile Strike, 1912. Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-23725.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In 1912, The International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the \u201cWobblies\u201d) organized textile workers in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts. This photo shows strikers, carrying American flags, confronting strikebreakers and\u00a0militia bayonets.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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