Hopelessly Bound to the Stake

1.What are the three pieces of information you chose? Why did you choose the three?

- "Laborers were bound inevitably bound to their company through debt" 

-"The poor were stuck in a rut"

-"Workers thought they would prevail through strikes and boycotts but their employees were able to outsmart them with scabs"

I chose those three because it relates to what happened to the workers, and how they suffered in the many ways they got treated.


2. Were labor unions necessary? why?
- Labor unions were necessary because workers wanted to get paid higher wages and work less hours.They also wanted better working conditions.


3. Did the government help make monopolies?how?
- The government did help make monopolies because people with money can do what they want, meaning that if they wanted to contribute in the making of any law, they could pay so they could be there to make sure the law they wanted was made.


4. How did money in politics contribute to this cartoon? How has this changed?
- The monopolies used money to do what they wanted meanwhile the poor people had no business in anything because they were helpless from the rich people doing and making the decisions they wanted. This has changed because the workers aren't getting treated the way they used to get treated before, because now the workers have a say and can complain if they want to if something is not right without getting in trouble.