LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Samuel Gompers, Bsc Young Boys

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Lecture 8- rise and fall of the k of l- part 2. Basic humanity is being lost, need a common bond between all people. Industrial capitalism is new, knights wanted to challenge a lot of it. Wanted to encourage a more cooperative model. Nobility of toil- that people still have their humanity on the job. Wanted to create the sense that there was dignity in what you did as a job. Wanted to fight the sense that you had to go along with what economic changes were happening. Particular economic activity they challenged morally: biggest one is speculation-- land speculation. Knights were conservative, posed themselves as protectors of family. They felt that a lot of the changes in the society were putting strain on the family. Young boys had to start working, dads always gone, families are always separated, etc. (classic moral issues that knights tried to raise) Men would march and women would be carried in buggies.