AI Tutor

Premium Lesson

Upgrade to unlock this lesson, practice questions, and your personal tutor.

This lesson is part of a track

Public learning track

American Labor: From Early Systems to the Modern Workforce

9th Grade · Social Studies · US-NV-SS

9 lessons

Goal

Evaluate the evolution of American labor systems, the rise and decline of organized labor, and key historical labor struggles through the modern gig economy.

9 lessons
0 of 9 done
  1. Early American Labor Systems: Indentured Servitude, Enslavement, and Artisan GuildsUp next
  2. The Industrial Factory System and the Lowell Mill ExperimentNot started yet
  3. The Rise of Organized Labor: The Knights of Labor and the AFLNot started yet
  4. Gilded Age Labor Conflicts: Great Railroad Strike, Haymarket, and HomesteadNot started yet
  5. The Pullman Strike, Eugene Debs, and the Use of Federal InjunctionsNot started yet
  6. The Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Flint Sit-Down StrikeNot started yet
  7. Postwar Labor Accords and the Peak of Union MembershipYou are here
  8. The Culinary Workers Union and Service-Sector Labor in NevadaNot started yet
  9. De-Unionization, Automation, and the Gig EconomyNot started yet
View full track

Learning standards covered

us-nvSS.9-12.US.44Nevada Social Studies Standards · 7th Grade

Evaluate multiple factors that impact the U.S. economy over time, including but not limited to: trade, resources, labor, and monetary system.