Labor Unions Emerge

1. In it's entirety, labor unions were (good or bad) and why?

Based upon what I have read, labor unions were good for employees because they could demand for their rights like to have less working hours and not to get exploited.

2. Describe the sweatshop and how 146 women died in a fire, and how it could have been prevented.

The Triangle Shirtwaist factory was a sweatshop in which 146 seamstresses died because fire spread through the oil-soaked machines and piles of cloth. These deaths could have been prevented if the owner would had unlock the other doors so that the employees could escape or have the sprinkler system so that the fire could be put out.

3. What is a scab and why would unionized workers not like scabs?

Monopolists did not want unions because the owner would have to put his prices up and customers wouldn't want that . Union members did not like scabs because scabs were hired to the replace workers that are in the Union.

4. Describe the type of people who formed the IWW Union. What does IWW mean?

Many factory and sweatshop owners disliked the vision of unions like the IWW because .