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The INVENTION

-Record the invention that sparked the industry into the age of mass production.

-Identify the industry the invention affected

-Identify the product or products this industry created.

-Record date of invention and subsequent improvements

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Notable INFORMATION

-Identify a tycoon (business owner) of that industry and how much he made a year.

-Collect an image of the tycoon or owner of the business

-Give dates of suspicious occurrences (such as fires or accidents),

-Try and give a date to when the tycoons were around in the time period.

-Any other misc. info?

The WORKER PROFILE

-Identify the types of jobs this industry opened up and who worked them

-Create a worker profile or profiles addressing age, gender, race/ethnicity, wages, and hours of work.

-Collect at least two images that show different workers in this work area

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The EXPOSÉ or Muckracker

-Identify any writers, activists, or photojournalists who exposed the plight of the worker to the country.

-Reference publications that made an impact at that time.

-Give a date for the exposé

-Locate and collect an image of the journalist, activist, or photojournalist.

CONDITIONS at WORK

-What were the working conditions in those factories?

-List all health issues associated with the job (including injuries).

-Collect images that show the workplace.

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Early REGULATION Attempts

-Identify earliest evidence of regulation in this industry.

-Identify successful union movements.

-Record date of any law or rule that was passed.

(Overhead 1)

Edited by:

Stephanie Nardei

Information Specialist

SW Environmental Health Science Center University of Arizona, Center of Toxicology

Tucson, Arizona

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