1.Which do you think is a better form of unionism, industrial unions or trade unions, based on the evidence from the latter part of the 19th century? How does each type of union effect individual workers and promote overall betterment for the working class? Give examples from union events and specific unions. After Reading Emma Goldman’s New Declaration of Independence did radical unionism pose a threat to the Founding principles?
2. How and why were the Progressive Reformers able to bring the “Theory of American equality closer to reality when the Labor Union reformers seemed to fail according to your text?
3. Read the poems on Immigration and explain the historical difference between the “theory of equality” and the practice of discrimination in American Society.
