In this episode of Talking Hoosier History, we’ll learn about labor organizer Mary “Mother” Jones’s political partnership with John W. Kern, the U.S. Senator from Indiana, and how their alliance represented a real shift in attitudes regarding organized labor during the Progressive Era.
Standards
U. S. History
USH.2.4 – Summarize the impact industrialization and immigration had on social movements of the era, including the contributions of specific individuals and groups.
USH.3.2 – Explain the origins, goals, achievements, and limitations of the Progressive Movement in addressing political, economic, and social reform.
USH.3.4 – Explain the importance of social and cultural movements within the Progressive Era, including significant individuals/groups such as Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, NAACP, muckrakers, and Upton Sinclair, and including movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, Women’s Suffrage, labor movements, and socialist movement.
Indiana Studies
IS.1.9 – Explain key ideas, movements, and inventions and summarize their impact on rural and urban communities throughout Indiana.
IS.1.10 – Describe the growth of unions and the labor movement and evaluate various approaches and methods used by different labor leaders and organizations.
IS.1.35 – Locate and analyze primary sources and secondary sources related to an event or issue of the past. Discover possible limitations in various kinds of historical evidence and differing secondary opinions.
