CLASSWORKS HONORS

(NOTE: The specific documents listed below are particularly useful but are by no means the only useful documents.)
- From the EDSITEment resource American Memory
  - Chicago Anarchists on Trial (If desired, share this definition of an anarchist with the students: An anarchist is someone who rejects completely the need for a government and wants to abolish it.)
  - Proclamation Granting Eight-Hour Day for federal workers, 1869 (Includes text. Click on the image for larger versions.)
- From The Dramas of Haymarket on The Chicago Historical Society, a link from the EDSITEment resource American Memory
  - Haymarket Affair Chronology
  - Haymarket Affair Narrative
  - Highlights of the Collection
  - Broadside: Revenge!
  - Haymarket Affair Digital Collection: Table of Contents
  - Act I: Subterranean Fire (The last few paragraphs starting with the words, "On May 4, exactly a year…")
  - Who Threw The Bomb?
- From Haymarket Riot (Chicago Public Library), a link from the EDSITEment resource American Memory
  - Another Summary of Events
  - Haymarket Photo Library (NOTE: "Photo" is a misnomer here. This page contains digitized images of various graphics related to the Haymarket Affair such as posters and editorial cartoons.)
- From The Haymarket Tragedy, a link from the EDSITEment resource American Memory
  - May Day Remembered, a recent poem commemorating the May Day event
  - Narrative About the Eventual Pardon
- From Haymarket Trial on Famous Trials, a link from the EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library
  - Timeline of the American Labor Movement
  - Summary of Trial (Includes a brief discussion of anarchism.

Homestead Strike 1892:

(NOTE: The specific documents listed below are particularly useful but are by no means the only useful documents.)

It shall be the rule for the workman to be Partner with Capital, the man of affairs giving his business experience, the working man in the mill his mechanical skill, to the company, both owners of the shares and so far equally interested in the success of their joint efforts.
—Andrew Carnegie
- From Andrew Carnegie, the Richest Man in the World on The American Experience, a link from the EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library
  - The Steel Business (Discusses what a steel mill is like.)
  - Strike at Homestead Mill
  - Homestead Letters
  - The Homestead Strike
- From the EDSITEment resource History Matters
  - The Musical Saga of Homestead "Workers sang during strikes not only to state their beliefs and goals, but because singing helped bind workers together. The Homestead strike of 1892 even had its own Homestead Strike Songster, and the story of the strike can be traced in the lyrics of the following four songs."
  - "I Will Kill Frick": Emma Goldman Recounts the Attempt to Assassinate the Chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company During the: Homestead Strike in 1892 "Known for his uncompromising and cruel tactics, Frick became an obvious target for labor activists looking to make a statement during the protracted strike."
  - Frick's Fracas: Henry Frick Makes His Case "During the 1892 strike at the Homestead Steel Works, plant manager Henry Clay Frick attempted to defeat the strikers forcibly by hiring three hundred armed agents of the notorious Pinkerton Detective Agency. The strikers fought back, and, after casualties and deaths on both sides, the Pinkertons surrendered. In the aftermath of the Pinkerton debacle, Frick spoke with a reporter for the Pittsburgh Post. He laid out his implacable opposition to dealing with the union, his belief that the Pennsylvania governor should send in troops, and his goal of reducing wages at the plant, the central issue in the conflict. Frick argued that the Homestead owners were not allowed to reap the fruits of their investment because of workers' inordinately high wage scales. The union, on the other hand, claimed that the cost of producing steel at Homestead was well below the industry standard, in large measure because the Homestead workers had cooperated in the recent mechanization of the plant."

Sweatshops and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 1911:

(NOTE: The specific documents listed below are particularly useful but are by no means the only useful documents.)
- From Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A History of American Sweatshops, 1820 to the Present on the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, a link from the EDSITEment resource American Studies at the University of Virginia
  - Tenement Sweatshops
  - Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- From The Triangle Factory Fire, a link from the EDSITEment resource Women and Social Movements
  - Introduction
  - Sweatshops and Strikes Before 1911 (Gives background information.)
  - My First Job (Tells about working conditions.)
  - New York Times Account of the Fire (March 26, 1911)
  - Stories of Survivors (from the New York Times, March 26, 1911)
- Triangle Fire on the EDSITEment resource New Deal Network
- Obituary of the Last Survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on National Public Radio, a link from the EDSITEment resource Internet Public Library

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