Labor Movement

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

Involved privately hired Pinkerton detectives who became involved in an altercation with strikers

• The Great Strike of 1877

• The Haymarket Affair

• The Homestead Strike

• The Pullman Strike

One protester threw a bomb into a crowd, killing police officers

• The Great Strike of 1877
• The Haymarket Affair
• The Homestead Strike
• The Pullman Strike

Why was the American Federation of Labor (AFL) the most successful union during the Industrial Revolution?

• The AFL employed unskilled workers who had the most demands

• The AFL employed skilled workers who were more difficult to replace

• The AFL emplyed men and women, gaining the support of the Progressive party

• The AFL employed inskilled and skilled workers, representing the entire labor class

This political cartoon represents the idea of what?

• Workmen's Comp

• Capitalism

• Low wages

• Collective bargaining

Why would factory owners what to hire kids to work?

• Can easily get to places that adults cant when fixing a machine?

• Kids work harder

• Kids will have more energy

• Can pay the kids less thus saving money.

First big union fell apart after some unsuccessful strikes

• Knights of Labor
  
• Bishops of Labor
• Pawns of Labor
• Rooks of Labor

What were the working conditions demanded by the factory workers?

• That oil wells be expropriated to privatize the petrochemical industry

• Land to work the fields and farms as well as cattle

• Salary increase, 8-hour work day, half-Saturday rest, prohibition of work for minors under 14 years of age..

 Images such as this illustrate the position that many US companies were — 

• requiring vocational training programs for children
• employing children as a source of cheap labor
• seeking government regulation of child labor
• providing safe working conditions for child laborers

Which technique of labor unions was the most effective for unskilled labor?

• Strikes

• Walk outs

• Arbitration

• Mediation