Describe working conditions for late-nineteenth-century

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Question: From the conclusion of the Civil War into the twentieth century, industrial workers won few strikes and very few were in unions. They were largely unsuccessful in winning concessions and protections. Using examples from lecture as well as from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire documentary and the video on the Ludlow coal strike, please:

*Describe working conditions for late-nineteenth-century industrial workers;

*Identify/describe one way in which industrialization in the South differed from that in the Northeast or Midwest;

*Provide two reasons why workers were so ineffective in improving their work conditions through strikes and union organizing.

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