ENCYCLOPEDIAOF US Labor and Working
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The Sherman Antitrust Act and the
... argued in circuit court that the boycott did not come within the scope of the Sherman Act, which was aimed at trusts, not combinations of laborers. Furthermore, they argued, The character of the combination must be determined by its designs, means, and effect. The design is to unionize the plaintiff ...
... argued in circuit court that the boycott did not come within the scope of the Sherman Act, which was aimed at trusts, not combinations of laborers. Furthermore, they argued, The character of the combination must be determined by its designs, means, and effect. The design is to unionize the plaintiff ...
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... 1773. Also, the Declaration of Independence was signed by the Continental Congress who met in Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia during 1776. In 1827, the Mechanics’ Union of Trade Associations was formed by several trade unions in Philadelphia, which is said to be the first U.S labor organization that ...
... 1773. Also, the Declaration of Independence was signed by the Continental Congress who met in Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia during 1776. In 1827, the Mechanics’ Union of Trade Associations was formed by several trade unions in Philadelphia, which is said to be the first U.S labor organization that ...
Industrialization/ Progressivism/ Imperialism Review Packet Name
... bread and butter unionism, Gospel of Wealth, and mechanization would most likely be found in a ...
... bread and butter unionism, Gospel of Wealth, and mechanization would most likely be found in a ...
document Working Peoples History (participant workbook)
... Led by organizers with the United Mine Workers (UMW), 11,000 miners in southern Colorado, most of them foreign-born Greeks, Italians, and Serbs, wage a strike against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation to protest low pay, dangerous working conditions, “company stores,” and the mu ...
... Led by organizers with the United Mine Workers (UMW), 11,000 miners in southern Colorado, most of them foreign-born Greeks, Italians, and Serbs, wage a strike against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation to protest low pay, dangerous working conditions, “company stores,” and the mu ...
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... between striking workers and their corporate employer in U.S. history.36 It occurred in 1914, the year before the Monthly Labor Review was first published, and demonstrated a need for federal protections of striking workers. Nevertheless, the first successful efforts to enact federal protections for ...
... between striking workers and their corporate employer in U.S. history.36 It occurred in 1914, the year before the Monthly Labor Review was first published, and demonstrated a need for federal protections of striking workers. Nevertheless, the first successful efforts to enact federal protections for ...
Chapter 24 Questions - About me...the Social Studies Guy
... The National Labor Union was formed after the Civil War in 1866 and collected over 600,000 workers in different trades [Chinese, blacks and most women were excluded]. Economic depression in the 1870s ended up folding the group. Biggest accomplishment was the 8-hour workday for ...
... The National Labor Union was formed after the Civil War in 1866 and collected over 600,000 workers in different trades [Chinese, blacks and most women were excluded]. Economic depression in the 1870s ended up folding the group. Biggest accomplishment was the 8-hour workday for ...
Objective 4
... Objective 6.02: Identify the areas of the United States military, economic, and political involvement and influence. Essential Questions: • How did America and the world change as the US increased its role in world affairs? • To what extent have the effects of US actions and policies been beneficial ...
... Objective 6.02: Identify the areas of the United States military, economic, and political involvement and influence. Essential Questions: • How did America and the world change as the US increased its role in world affairs? • To what extent have the effects of US actions and policies been beneficial ...
Lesson 26 Postwar Tensions
... the exclusive politics of many unions. The AFL, for example, limited its membership by refusing to organize unskilled employees. It also excluded women, African Americans, and most immigrants. In response, African Americans organized their own unions. The best known, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car ...
... the exclusive politics of many unions. The AFL, for example, limited its membership by refusing to organize unskilled employees. It also excluded women, African Americans, and most immigrants. In response, African Americans organized their own unions. The best known, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car ...
Fantasia and Voss - University of Minnesota Duluth
... penned his famous essay, Why Is There No Socialism in the United States, the American labor movement had become distinctive-not for being uniquely strong and class conscious but instead for being weaker and more politically conservative than labor movements in Western Europe.' During the course of t ...
... penned his famous essay, Why Is There No Socialism in the United States, the American labor movement had become distinctive-not for being uniquely strong and class conscious but instead for being weaker and more politically conservative than labor movements in Western Europe.' During the course of t ...
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... only the money they have invested in a company. ...
... only the money they have invested in a company. ...
Solidarity Divided
... workforce generally and the working class in particular. Yet in the United States, that competition took a particular form: beginning in the 1600s, ruling elites, as a matter of ensuring social control over the workforce, used racist oppression as a means of driving a wedge between workers. By const ...
... workforce generally and the working class in particular. Yet in the United States, that competition took a particular form: beginning in the 1600s, ruling elites, as a matter of ensuring social control over the workforce, used racist oppression as a means of driving a wedge between workers. By const ...
HIST363 Assessment 7: Capital and Labor Relations, 1880–1920
... developed political parties, U.S. workers never developed a political party to represent their interests. Sombart emphasized that because universal manhood suffrage occurred much earlier in the United States, workers never had to organize to win the right to vote, unlike in Europe, where the aristoc ...
... developed political parties, U.S. workers never developed a political party to represent their interests. Sombart emphasized that because universal manhood suffrage occurred much earlier in the United States, workers never had to organize to win the right to vote, unlike in Europe, where the aristoc ...
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... Main Idea: Until the mid-nineteenth century, most businesses were run by one person or family and were local. Industrialization and railroads changed all this. Debating the Role of Big Business Main Idea: Throughout the 1880s, business mergers created powerful empires for those who invested in steel ...
... Main Idea: Until the mid-nineteenth century, most businesses were run by one person or family and were local. Industrialization and railroads changed all this. Debating the Role of Big Business Main Idea: Throughout the 1880s, business mergers created powerful empires for those who invested in steel ...
A Chronology 1778-1955 E. - University of California, Berkeley
... peacetime occurred during a strike of railroad workers against a 10-percent cut in pay. Railroads operating east of the Mississippi River were involved. Marked by violence and property damage, more than 100 were reported killed and 200 injured. 1878 The Greenback-Labor Party was organized by a fusio ...
... peacetime occurred during a strike of railroad workers against a 10-percent cut in pay. Railroads operating east of the Mississippi River were involved. Marked by violence and property damage, more than 100 were reported killed and 200 injured. 1878 The Greenback-Labor Party was organized by a fusio ...
Ap09 Us History Q4 - AP Central
... • Persuaded employers to recognize AFL and bargain collectively for better working conditions, higher wages, shorter hours (“bread and butter goals”), closed shop, union-preference shop (employer could hire nonunion if union members were not available). • Use of the strike against employers who refu ...
... • Persuaded employers to recognize AFL and bargain collectively for better working conditions, higher wages, shorter hours (“bread and butter goals”), closed shop, union-preference shop (employer could hire nonunion if union members were not available). • Use of the strike against employers who refu ...
The Labor-Management Relations Act (or the Taft
... U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947 ; labor leaders called it the "slavelabor bill," while President Truman argued that it was a "dangerous intrusion on free speech," and that it would "conflict with important principles of our democratic society. " Nevertheless, Truman would subs ...
... U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947 ; labor leaders called it the "slavelabor bill," while President Truman argued that it was a "dangerous intrusion on free speech," and that it would "conflict with important principles of our democratic society. " Nevertheless, Truman would subs ...
American Labor in Comparative Perspective Period: 1880
... 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. Many of the nation's most famous strikes involved the railroads. The Great Railroad Strike of 187 ...
... 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. Many of the nation's most famous strikes involved the railroads. The Great Railroad Strike of 187 ...
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... scene: "We met a mob, which blocked the streets. "They came armed with stones and as soon as we came within reach they began to throw at us." Fully armed and with bayonets fixed, the militia fired, killing 10, including a newsboy and a 16-year-old student. The shootings sparked a rampage. Protesters ...
... scene: "We met a mob, which blocked the streets. "They came armed with stones and as soon as we came within reach they began to throw at us." Fully armed and with bayonets fixed, the militia fired, killing 10, including a newsboy and a 16-year-old student. The shootings sparked a rampage. Protesters ...
Knights of Labor
... Major goals were to unite all national labor organizations into a national federation, create unions in areas where none existed, and establish a political party to represent laborers Supporters were skilled workers but unskilled and farmers were also invited to join At its height there were abou ...
... Major goals were to unite all national labor organizations into a national federation, create unions in areas where none existed, and establish a political party to represent laborers Supporters were skilled workers but unskilled and farmers were also invited to join At its height there were abou ...
Chapter 9
... wages. Companies cut workers' wages but prices fell even faster, so that wages were really still going up in buying power. Workers were angry, however, because they were being paid less for the same amount of work.) ...
... wages. Companies cut workers' wages but prices fell even faster, so that wages were really still going up in buying power. Workers were angry, however, because they were being paid less for the same amount of work.) ...
Labor Disputes Chart
... CIO Splits from AFL The Congress of Industrial Organizations splits from the American Federation of Labor over disputes about methods of organizing large industries. The two groups will remain rivals until merging back together as the AFL-CIO in 1955. Jun 25, 1938 ...
... CIO Splits from AFL The Congress of Industrial Organizations splits from the American Federation of Labor over disputes about methods of organizing large industries. The two groups will remain rivals until merging back together as the AFL-CIO in 1955. Jun 25, 1938 ...
Gilded Age Unit (1870
... and 1920-20 million Europeansmostly from Southern and Eastern Europe came to America- (Jews/Catholics) Hundreds of thousands more came from Mexico, Caribbean, and China Looked and sounded different than natives Nativism-Movement to ensure that native-born Americans received better treatment than ...
... and 1920-20 million Europeansmostly from Southern and Eastern Europe came to America- (Jews/Catholics) Hundreds of thousands more came from Mexico, Caribbean, and China Looked and sounded different than natives Nativism-Movement to ensure that native-born Americans received better treatment than ...
History of Indian labor Unions
... 100,000 members which (as result of winning major strike against a railroad) exploded to 700,000 the following year. Partly, because of their focus on social reforms and partly due to series of unsuccessful strikes. The knights’ membership dwindled rapidly thereafter, and the group dissolved in 1893 ...
... 100,000 members which (as result of winning major strike against a railroad) exploded to 700,000 the following year. Partly, because of their focus on social reforms and partly due to series of unsuccessful strikes. The knights’ membership dwindled rapidly thereafter, and the group dissolved in 1893 ...