Federal Legislation that started private sector unionization and collective bargaining By PLAR Period: 1619 to 1660 Indentured Servants/Apprentice Period: 1820 to 1880 Sweatshops 1880 American Federation of Labor 1886 Haymarket Square Affair Period: 1905 to 1924 Wobblies - Industrial Workers of the World Period: 1916 to 1924 African Americans left the south to take railroad jobs in the north 1929 The Great Depression 1933 One-quarter of the workforce was unemployed 1936 CIO tested strengths against Goodyear Tire Company 1945 Equal Pay for Equal Work, but was it..... 1945 Union Leaders did not fight during WWII 1947 Taft Hartley Act - outlawed non-union members 1950 AFL and CIO merged to build strength against political pressure 1960 King Jr. promotes labor unions 1970 Global capitalism negatively impacts big labor