Thinking Back to Other Labor Struggles in the Nineteenth and Early

question 80

Essay

Thinking back to other labor struggles in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as the Homestead Strike, Haymarket Affair, 1902 Coal Strike, and Ludlow Massacre, how do the Memorial Day Massacre and the UAW sit-down strikes compare? Had organized labor become any more sophisticated over the years in its tactics? Had business or government become any more sympathetic?

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Definitions:

Recall

A memory task in which a person must produce required information by searching memory.

Retrieval Cues

Stimuli that assist in the recall of information stored in the memory.

Searching Memory

The cognitive process of actively retrieving information stored in the brain, involving various strategies and brain areas.

Eugenics

Is the belief that the human race can be improved by controlling which people can become parents.