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Railroad Strikes
Causes: Response to cuts in workers' wages.
Effects: Set the scene for violent strikes to come. -
Haymarket Square
Causes: Part of a campaign to achieve an eight-hour workday.
Effects: Americans became wary of labor unions; the Knights of Labor were blamed for the riot and membership declined. -
Homestead Strike
Causes: Economic depression led to cuts in steelworkers' wages
Effects: After losing the standoff, steelworker unions lost power throughout the country -
Pullman Strike
Causes: Wages cut without decrease in the cost of living in the company town
Effects: Employers used the courts to limit the influence of unions.