Labor Unions: The Failure to Gain Public Acceptance

Part B:

1).

Document A- Capitalist

Document B- Capitalist

Document C- Horatio Alger

Document D- American Public

Document E- Socialist

Document F- American Public

Document G- Capitalist

Document H- Anarchist 

Document I- Nativist 

2). Horatio Alger convinced America that a poor man could easily rise up in the socio-economic scale to fulfill the "rags to riches" fantasy, an idea so prevalent that it would later be recognized as the American dream. This, combined with the nativist philosophy of anti-immigration, worked to decrease the public's opinion of the foreign workers that primarily made up the labor movement. Capitalists took advantage of these sentiments to sway the values of the American public towards their cause. 

3). The aforementioned biases worked actively against the struggle of autonomous workers' rights; the immense popularity of Horatio Alger in American culture and high concentration of capitalist businessmen at the time lessened the voice of the already weakly heard minority of labor activists. 

Part C:

The most significant reason for the failure of the labor movement was the widespread industrialization of the US economy especially after the reintigration of the South into the manufacturing sector. Our economy relied on a large labor force to carry the majority of our exports and domestic products, and the grip that capitalism had on the nation was too strong to break.