Your task is not an easy one. You stand at the gates in the early morning hoping that the factory manager will pick you to be one of the workers for the day. It would be better if he chose you to work for a week, but there are no guarantees. You're tired of it. You want fair wages and job stability. You want better working conditions. Your task is to look up information on the websites provided about the steel industry and unions and try to convince your co-workers to unionize against your employers. You need to take notes on any relevant information that is going to help you organize and win the strike against the steel industry!
Andrew Carnegie and the Steel Business http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/mf_flames.html
Letters about the Homestead Mill Strike http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/sfeature/mh_letters.html
Steel Industry and the Union Movement http://history.osu.edu/projects/PittsburghSurvey/SteelWorkers/unions.htm
Detailed document about the Carnegie Steel Company and the Homestead Strike. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7672/homestead.html
www.google.com. www.yahoo.com. Class encyclopedia. Class dictionary for any unknown words.