In-Class Team Project   Effects of Unions & the Labor Movement
Your Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Answer the questions found below as a group.                  Indicate the name of the class:     ____________
Hand in one answer with everyone's name
          - First & last and in alphabetical order by last name        - Include only members who are present
Indicate the date:  ________________________          Indicate the name of the Project:  ____________________
Be thorough; write good answers       Use your time wisely.       Be finished by the end of the allotted time
Name of the Project: Effects of Unions & the Labor Movement

1.  What would the US economy & Labor Force look like if there had never been a Labor Movement?

2.  Specifically address some of the points below, & discuss how these social effects would or would not be different, 
      if there had never been a Labor Movement.

3.  What would be the effect on the social circumstances listed below if the Labor Movement ceased to exist today?

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 Unionization has created a movement of workers 
      from the Lower Class to the Middle Class & the Upper Middle Class
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 Union members have by & large moved 
    from the lower class into the middle class as a result of unionization
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 Unions have taken many non-union workers with them into the Middle Class
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 Within the framework of the Labor Movement, 
      many unionists wanted their children & grandchildren 
      to get a higher education and escape the factory
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 The Labor Movement formulated the American Dream of upward social mobility, as well as 
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         discouraging political activity 
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         keeping workers satisfaction level high
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 Has this aspiration been achieved? 
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 A failure of this aspiration would
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         encourage more political activity
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        lower worker satisfaction
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        increase multi-generational unionism
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 As a classic dialectical outcome,
      the Labor Movement has had the effect of unionist children NOT becoming union members
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 The Labor Movement has created an entire socio-political system of Labor-Mgt. Relations
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 The Labor Movement has stabilized the regulated monopoly-capitalist economic system
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 The Labor Movement has created a divided workforce 
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