Zinn, the Socialist Challenge

Zinn, “The Socialist Challenge”

1. What is the central thesis and arguement?

2. What events and conditions drove people to analyze the capitalistic model of society? What suggestions did they make to change it?

3. What were the social and economic conditions that characterized the guilded age? How did people respond?

4. What were muckrakers? Who are some well known examples?

5. What is taylorism?

6. What characterized early unionism?

7. What was the IWW, what were the aims and goals? What tactics did they use to reach their goals?

8. What is anrach-syndicalism and how does it work?

9. What is the significance of the IWW and the Freedom of Speech struggle?

10. Debs, in 1904 proclaimed a new purpose for the socialist party, what was it did the aim differ from conditions of craftsmen and “mechanics” prior to and during the market revolution?