Class today focused on what life was like in the factories and why people at times would try to go on strike. While this was not always successful it was the only way workers could attempt to earn a fair wage, or fair hours. The homestead strike was one of the bloodiest strikes in which at the end of the day 12 people ended up dead. 9 of them were workers from Carnegie's factory. We watched a clip from this scene in the Men who built America. Students had a short packet for homework to do in looking at the good at bad of Industrialists.