American history: Labor Unions

These organizations tried to improve working conditions for workers-

• Political Bosses

• Labor Unions

• Political Machines

• Farmers

They worked hard, did not attend school, and there was not any laws to protect them.

• Lockout

• Arbitration

• Child Labor

• Collective Bargaining

A refusal to work (most successful method)

• strikes

• lockouts

• collective bargaining

• black lists

Negotiations between representatives of labor and management to reach an agreement.

• black lists

• collective bargaining

• lockouts

• strikes

This incident led to demise of Knights of Labor

• Pullman Strike

• Homestead Strike

• Haymarket Square

This is a VIOLENT strike between workers and owners at Carnegie's mill. (20% wage cut).

• Pullman Strike

• Homestead Strike

• Haymarket Square

Under leader Terrence Powderly, this grew rapidly during the 1880's

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

Leader of the American Federation of Labor. America's largest labor union.

• a.  Eugene Debs 
• b.   Andrew Carnegie 
• c.   Samuel Gompers
• d.   Eugene Gompers

He/She became a union leader who organized the United Mine Workers of America.  

• a. Abraham Gesner
• b. Thomas Edison
• c. Samuel Gompers
• d. Mother Mary Harris Jones 

He/She was a union leader who later became the spokesperson for the Socialist Party of America.  

• a. Henry Bessemer
• b. Charles Darwin 
• c. Mary Harris Jones
• d.  Eugene Debs