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Noble Order of the Knights of Labor
The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was a labor union founded by the Philadelphia garment workers in 1869. The labor union was formed because the members wanted equal pay for equal work, they wanted to get rid of child labor, and have an 8 hour work day. This was open to all wage earners, farmers and merchants. The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor union lasted until 1900. -
Creation of Labor Day
Holiday Labor Day was created to celebrate the American workers who have given of themselves for the well-being of our country. The very first Labor Day was held on September 5 of 1882. To this day, the Labor Day holiday is on the first Monday of September. The United States celebrates the hard work of everyone in the country who has made an effort to make America a better place to live. -
Haymarket square Riot
• Workers in Chicago marched for 8 hr day protesting against McComick Harvesting machine
• Police came to break up the strike
• 8 police died and 100s injured -
the Homestead strike
• It was a lock out strike that culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892
• It was on of the most serious disputes in us labor history
• The dispute occurred at the Homestead steel works in Pittsburgher -
The pullman strike
• Company built town of Pullman so workers could rent homes from owner, George S. Pullman
• Wages went down but the rent stayed the same
• Thousands of railroad workers want on strike =no transportation -
The coal strike
• Strike by the united Mine workers in the anthracite coal fields of eastern
• The strike threatened to shut down the winter fuel supply to all major cities.
• President Theodore Roosevelt became involved and set up a fact-finding commission that suspended the strike. -
The Jungle
"The Jungle" is a story based on the hardworking, brave children and adults that worked in hazardous meat factories for little pay. Upton Sinclair, a muckraker, wrote about the dangers of meat factories to warn consumers about the unsanitary conditions of where their meat was coming from. He wanted the consumers to take action and protect their families from becoming ill from the contaminated meat. This piece was also written to inform the public about the long hours youngsters worke -
"The Bitter Cry of Children"
"The Bitter Cry of Children" portrayed the suffering of young children working all day doing back-breaking tasks such as hunching over chutes to sort out pieces of slate from coal. John Spargo wrote "The Bitter Cry of Children" to expose to the world how terrible it really was for children who worked as coal miners and had no choice but to do as they were told and do their job. This story proves to the public how hard and long coal miners (who were kids) w -
Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed on June 30, 1906. It became a United States federal law that provided federal meat inspection of meat products. The law also forbade manufacturing, transportation or sale of contaminated, dangerous food products and patented medicines that were poisonous. -
Congress of Industrial Organization
The Congress of Industrial Organization was a part of the American Federation of Labor until 1935 when they broke off onto their own. They departed the AFL because it favored organization along industrial lines instead of craft lines. Even though they took off in 1935, they decided to rejoin the AFL in 1955. -
The National Labor Relations Act
The National Labor Relations Act (also known as the Wagner Act) was passed in the year of 1935. The main ideas of this act were pro-labor and the labor's right to organize legally recognized. This act also wanted the power to punish unfair labor practices and work. -
GM sit-down strike
• Strike by General Motor’s employees that shut down plant operations in Flint, Michigan and other cities.
• The action against gm brought the tactic of sit-down strikes and their effectiveness to the attention of the general public.
• A sit-down strike involves workers remaining in the workplace while on strike to prevent normal business -
Fair Labor Standards Act
The Fair Labor Standards Act achieved the goal of the federal regulation of child labor. This means that for the first time, federal law regulated the minimum ages of employment and hours of work for young people. This specific act was passed during 1938 -
Steel strike
• Strike by the United steelworkers against us steel and nine other steelmakers
• The steel companied sued to regain control of their facilities
• The steel workers struck to win a wage increase -
Major league baseball strike
The 1972 baseball streke was the first players strike in major league baseball history. The strike lasted from April 1 to April 13 1997.Baseball resumed when the players and owners agreed on a 500,000 increase in pay -
New York City transit strike
it was located in new york called by the transport workers union local 100(twu).Negotiations for a new contrct with the metropolitan.millons of commuters were affected. -
How the Other Half Lives"
Jacob Riis wrote about the lives of the slums surviving in New York during the 1880s. His publication explained the poor, unfortunate living conditions of those who could not afford decent housing, clothing or items. Most of the slums Riis wrote about made small wages, just enough to buy tiny portions of food for their families and pay to live in a tenement (run-down, small housing apartments.) Others had no income, eating only the food they could find or get and lived