HIST363: Global Perspectives on Industrialization

One of the most important results of the process of global industrialization has been the rise of new forms of organized labor. This assignment will help you identify and explain key concepts, people, and events from the history of organized labor by examining a very specific context: the struggle between organized labor and capitalists in the United States around the turn of the twentieth century. This was one of the most contentious periods in the battle between labor and capital, when people literally fought in the streets and in factories about their right to work and under what conditions. It is important to understand this tumultuous period, because it provides the context for much of the relationship between labor and capital in the twentieth century.

This assessment is ungraded, and will not affect your final course grade.