Watch these video clips on the Carnegie Homestead Mill Strike (just outside of Pittsburgh).
1. Why did workers at the Homestead Mill go on strike? What did they hope to gain?
2. Who did Carnegie leave in charge of Homestead? What was the reaction by management to the workers strike?
3. What was the outcome?
4. If you were the owner or manager of a factory in the late 1880s would you be willing to sit down with union leadership and collective bargain (remember that labor unions are a new concept at this time)? Why or why not?
5. If you were a laborer in the late 1880s would you be willing to join a union in-spite the feeling ownership had of them or the reputation they had in the public? Explain.