How did the Homestead lockout and strike of 1892 impact the labor movement of the late-19th century? In your response, please describe the working conditions laborers faced during the Gilded Age; and how the ideas of laissez-faire and social Darwinism contributed to those conditions. Please discuss the struggle for control over the workplace. In what ways did this strike symbolize the growing frustrations between labor and management during the Gilded Age? Your response should address the contentious debate over the workers' right to unionize; and why Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick felt the need to destroy the union in 1892.
Since this event occurred during America's transition into an industrial society, how did its outcome affect working conditions in the United States over the course of the next century? In other words, what consequences of this struggle between management and labor can we still see today? (Please use specific examples to defend your position).