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THE CITY AND ITS WORKERS • Analyze which factors led to rapid urbanizationduring the late nineteenth century and determinewhat role immigration and industrialization’sdemand for cheap labor played in it. Define native-born whites’ response to the city’s proliferation ofimmigrants and African Americans and in what waysthe social geography of the city changed during thelate nineteenth century. • Describe briefly America’s diverse workers andthe kinds of work in which they were engaged.Ascertain the effects of mechanization on Americanindustry. Define the family economy, and what rolewomen and children played in it. Explain how themanagerial class developed and transformedAmerican labor. • Understand why workers in the late nineteenthcentury organized, what working conditions werelike, and how management responded to labor’sdemands. Analyze the Great Strike of 1877’s impacton American labor. Describe the formation of theKnights of Labor and the American Federation ofLabor and what different strategies and philosophiesthey embraced. Understand why the middle classfeared the radicalization of American labor. -Read Chapter 19, “The City and Its Workers, 1870-1900,” pp. 553-583. -Blog about : A Trip Down Market Street 1906 1. Provide an analysis of the above. 2. History Workshop – San Francisco’s Chinatown 3. Growth, Cities and Immigration - John Green History of Labor Unions