ENCYCLOPEDIAOF US Labor and Working
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... NLU persuaded the Congress to pass an eight hour day for federal workers, but since they were not considered a strong union, several unions under it withdraw their affiliation, causing the NLU collapse in 1872. After the NLU collapsed, five years later, a new union called the Knights of Labor, said ...
... NLU persuaded the Congress to pass an eight hour day for federal workers, but since they were not considered a strong union, several unions under it withdraw their affiliation, causing the NLU collapse in 1872. After the NLU collapsed, five years later, a new union called the Knights of Labor, said ...
Chapter 20 pages 616-637 - Community Unit School District 200
... THE RED SCARE The panic in the United States began in 1919, after revolutionaries in Russia overthrew the czarist regime. Vladimir I. Lenin and his followers, or Bolsheviks (“the majority”), established a new Communist state. Waving their symbolic red flag, Communists, or “Reds,” cried out for a wor ...
... THE RED SCARE The panic in the United States began in 1919, after revolutionaries in Russia overthrew the czarist regime. Vladimir I. Lenin and his followers, or Bolsheviks (“the majority”), established a new Communist state. Waving their symbolic red flag, Communists, or “Reds,” cried out for a wor ...
Chapter 20 - Cabarrus County Schools
... THE RED SCARE The panic in the United States began in 1919, after revolutionaries in Russia overthrew the czarist regime. Vladimir I. Lenin and his followers, or Bolsheviks (“the majority”), established a new Communist state. Waving their symbolic red flag, Communists, or “Reds,” cried out for a wor ...
... THE RED SCARE The panic in the United States began in 1919, after revolutionaries in Russia overthrew the czarist regime. Vladimir I. Lenin and his followers, or Bolsheviks (“the majority”), established a new Communist state. Waving their symbolic red flag, Communists, or “Reds,” cried out for a wor ...
Communist History at the Tamiment Library
... materials documenting the Red scares, government investigations, and prosecutions. Organizational records include the American Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born, National Council of American Soviet Friendship, Negro Youth Conference, Labor Research Association, American Veterans for Peace ...
... materials documenting the Red scares, government investigations, and prosecutions. Organizational records include the American Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born, National Council of American Soviet Friendship, Negro Youth Conference, Labor Research Association, American Veterans for Peace ...
The Origins of the Second Red Scare Revisited
... While socialists thought they would gain power through elections, the government was afraid of a communist uprising. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer ensured it would not happen. Palmer stated that the Justice Department would wage an “unflinching, persistent, aggressive warfare” against Bolshevi ...
... While socialists thought they would gain power through elections, the government was afraid of a communist uprising. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer ensured it would not happen. Palmer stated that the Justice Department would wage an “unflinching, persistent, aggressive warfare” against Bolshevi ...
The Origins of the Second Red Scare Revisited
... While socialists thought they would gain power through elections, the government was afraid of a communist uprising. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer ensured it would not happen. Palmer stated that the Justice Department would wage an “unflinching, persistent, aggressive warfare” against Bolshevi ...
... While socialists thought they would gain power through elections, the government was afraid of a communist uprising. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer ensured it would not happen. Palmer stated that the Justice Department would wage an “unflinching, persistent, aggressive warfare” against Bolshevi ...
Building Skills: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion
... made to tunnel through the mountains. This decision gave rise to the legend of John Henry, the steel-driving man. When digging a tunnel, rock must first be blasted out of the way. A team of three people—the driver, the shaker, and the powder monkey—performed this job. The driver used a sledgehammer ...
... made to tunnel through the mountains. This decision gave rise to the legend of John Henry, the steel-driving man. When digging a tunnel, rock must first be blasted out of the way. A team of three people—the driver, the shaker, and the powder monkey—performed this job. The driver used a sledgehammer ...
here - Workday Minnesota
... Female shirtwaist* workers in New York went on strike against sweatshop conditions in what became known as “The Uprising of the 20,000.” They were led by Clara Lemlich, a 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant who had become a union activist while still in her teens. When the male leaders of the workers re ...
... Female shirtwaist* workers in New York went on strike against sweatshop conditions in what became known as “The Uprising of the 20,000.” They were led by Clara Lemlich, a 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant who had become a union activist while still in her teens. When the male leaders of the workers re ...
Lesson 26 Postwar Tensions
... Workers Respond by Organizing and Striking Working-class Americans reacted to deteriorating working conditions in several ways. Many joined unions for the first time. At this time, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) dominated the union movement. The AFL was a group of unions representing skille ...
... Workers Respond by Organizing and Striking Working-class Americans reacted to deteriorating working conditions in several ways. Many joined unions for the first time. At this time, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) dominated the union movement. The AFL was a group of unions representing skille ...
A Chronology 1778-1955 E. - University of California, Berkeley
... United States. It failed to survive the financial panic of 1837. 1836 The National Cooperative Association of Cordwainers, the first national labor union of a specific craft, was formed in New York City. There is no further record of this organization after 1837. Other trades which formed national o ...
... United States. It failed to survive the financial panic of 1837. 1836 The National Cooperative Association of Cordwainers, the first national labor union of a specific craft, was formed in New York City. There is no further record of this organization after 1837. Other trades which formed national o ...
Fantasia and Voss - University of Minnesota Duluth
... Perhaps more significant even than the numbers was the fact that the CIO changed the symbolic place of unions in the public imagination from organizations providing narrow protection for the market skills of privileged artisans, to a social movement embodying and pursuing social justice." This was n ...
... Perhaps more significant even than the numbers was the fact that the CIO changed the symbolic place of unions in the public imagination from organizations providing narrow protection for the market skills of privileged artisans, to a social movement embodying and pursuing social justice." This was n ...
Term Paper Topics
... marking a drastic change in public policy. 1935: The Wagner Act, restricting management’s labor relations conduct and establishing the National Labor Relations Board to determine appropriate bargaining units and conduct representation elections, is enacted. John L. Lewis, unable to get his AFL colle ...
... marking a drastic change in public policy. 1935: The Wagner Act, restricting management’s labor relations conduct and establishing the National Labor Relations Board to determine appropriate bargaining units and conduct representation elections, is enacted. John L. Lewis, unable to get his AFL colle ...
Solidarity Divided
... of the most articulate advocates for inclusionism within labor was Eugene V. Debs, a leftist president of the American Railway Union, founding delegate of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and four times the Socialist Party’s candidate for president. Debs opposed capitalism and argued for a ...
... of the most articulate advocates for inclusionism within labor was Eugene V. Debs, a leftist president of the American Railway Union, founding delegate of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and four times the Socialist Party’s candidate for president. Debs opposed capitalism and argued for a ...
ocial Movements of the 1930s - Bill Barry, Labor Studies 101
... Comparison with 1920s—by Frank Lovell (March, 1986) In the search for cures to the seemingly mysterious sickness that is stripping the unions of their vitality today, there is constant reference to the plague of the 1920s that sapped the strength of the union movement then, and to the subsequent rev ...
... Comparison with 1920s—by Frank Lovell (March, 1986) In the search for cures to the seemingly mysterious sickness that is stripping the unions of their vitality today, there is constant reference to the plague of the 1920s that sapped the strength of the union movement then, and to the subsequent rev ...
Knights of Labor
... If the two sides are unable to negotiate a labor contract that can be approved by the union’s “rank and file” membership (all the members of the union who are not considered leadership) then the negotiating methods change. First, the two sides (management and labor) will use mediation. Mediation i ...
... If the two sides are unable to negotiate a labor contract that can be approved by the union’s “rank and file” membership (all the members of the union who are not considered leadership) then the negotiating methods change. First, the two sides (management and labor) will use mediation. Mediation i ...
American Industry/Urbanization PPT
... unions because they represented workers whose skills they needed. • If workers had a specific skill, they could not be easily replaced. • Even though they had to deal with them, most employers thought unions were conspiracies. -> Owners of large corporations hated industrial unions, which united all ...
... unions because they represented workers whose skills they needed. • If workers had a specific skill, they could not be easily replaced. • Even though they had to deal with them, most employers thought unions were conspiracies. -> Owners of large corporations hated industrial unions, which united all ...
War, Labor, and Dissent: Motivations of American Labor Unions
... afford the cost of a strike. This did not mean workers gained everything they wanted without incident, however. In fact, there were large numbers of strikes throughout the war years, averaging 3,000 per year between 1914 and 1920.14 Radical Unions such as the Industrial Workers of the World were inv ...
... afford the cost of a strike. This did not mean workers gained everything they wanted without incident, however. In fact, there were large numbers of strikes throughout the war years, averaging 3,000 per year between 1914 and 1920.14 Radical Unions such as the Industrial Workers of the World were inv ...
American Labor in Comparative Perspective Period: 1880
... The total miles of railroad track in the United States increased from just 23 in 1830 to 35,000 by the end of the Civil War to a peak of 254,000 in 1916. By the eve of World War I, railroads employed one out of every 25 American workers. The industry's growth was accompanied by bitter labor disputes ...
... The total miles of railroad track in the United States increased from just 23 in 1830 to 35,000 by the end of the Civil War to a peak of 254,000 in 1916. By the eve of World War I, railroads employed one out of every 25 American workers. The industry's growth was accompanied by bitter labor disputes ...
Labor Unions and Reform Laws - Ms. Jones`s World History Class
... British unions had shared goals of raising wages for their members and improving working conditions. By 1875, British trade unions had won the right to strike and picket peacefully. They had also built up a membership of about 1 million people. In the United States, skilled workers had belonged to u ...
... British unions had shared goals of raising wages for their members and improving working conditions. By 1875, British trade unions had won the right to strike and picket peacefully. They had also built up a membership of about 1 million people. In the United States, skilled workers had belonged to u ...
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... In 1889, the American Federation of Labor delegate to the International Labor Congress in Paris proposed May 1 as international Labor Day. Workers were to march for an eight-hour day, democracy, the right of workers to organize, and to memorialize the eight "Martyrs of Chicago." The Homestead Strike ...
... In 1889, the American Federation of Labor delegate to the International Labor Congress in Paris proposed May 1 as international Labor Day. Workers were to march for an eight-hour day, democracy, the right of workers to organize, and to memorialize the eight "Martyrs of Chicago." The Homestead Strike ...
Chapter 12
... forcefully put down by Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge. Violence erupted over a massive 1919 steel strike, with workers demanding the right to unionize. Steel makers labeled the workers as Communists, and the strike was broken in 1920. Later, a church group revealed the harsh conditions in st ...
... forcefully put down by Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge. Violence erupted over a massive 1919 steel strike, with workers demanding the right to unionize. Steel makers labeled the workers as Communists, and the strike was broken in 1920. Later, a church group revealed the harsh conditions in st ...
Ap09 Us History Q4 - AP Central
... Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) stated that labor organizations were not combinations in restraint of trade; Gompers called the act the Magna Carta of labor; in reality, the act did little to further the cause of unions. Ludlow Massacre, 1914: UMW strike against Colorado coal mines, September 1913–Apri ...
... Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) stated that labor organizations were not combinations in restraint of trade; Gompers called the act the Magna Carta of labor; in reality, the act did little to further the cause of unions. Ludlow Massacre, 1914: UMW strike against Colorado coal mines, September 1913–Apri ...
The Rise of Labor Unions
... Gompers became president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) He focused on collective bargaining to improve conditions, wages and hours ...
... Gompers became president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) He focused on collective bargaining to improve conditions, wages and hours ...
1 The Americans (Reconstruction to the 21st Century) Chapter 12
... was forcefully put down by Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge. Violence erupted over a massive 1919 steel strike, with workers demanding the right to unionize. Steel makers labeled the workers as Communists, and the strike was broken in 1920. Later, a church group revealed the harsh conditions i ...
... was forcefully put down by Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge. Violence erupted over a massive 1919 steel strike, with workers demanding the right to unionize. Steel makers labeled the workers as Communists, and the strike was broken in 1920. Later, a church group revealed the harsh conditions i ...