HIST 2057 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Samuel Gompers, Northern Securities Company, Roosevelt Corollary
Document Summary
Social reformers & the labor movement in the industrial era, 1870-1906. Factories and workers: more and more of these workers are immigrants from e, s, w europe. Living conditions of these immigrants were poor: overcrowded, lived in big cities. Immigrants more likely to accept these work and living conditions: worked for cheap and did the jobs natives didn"t want. How the other half lives (jacob riis, 1890: the lower east side of new york, the working class american experience of the late 1800s, book of photographs. Graphic images, so many newspapers refused to run them to offend, disgust their viewers. 5 cents gives immigrants a place to sleep along with their closest friends. Mood of the people in the photograph: somber. Room is crowded with personal items (pots/pans, luggage) no furnace/heater; no windows. Realistic, not staged photograph they look caught off guard.
