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An indentured servant or laborer is an employee within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract to work for a particular employer for a fixed time. This lasted until the 1660s.
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A prison for people who were unable to pay debt. It was a common way to deal with the unpaid debt. (Western Europe)
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The U.S. underwent an economic transformation.
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Workers for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad went on strike, because the company had reduced workers' wages. (Two times over the course of the previous year.)
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The Haymarket affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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Cut the hours, Children ages 8, 9, and 10 years old working for 35 cents an hour versus adult wages being a dollar. "Sweat Shops"
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Union Strong; Solidarity forever; "Wobblies" was an international labor union founded in Chicago, Illinois.
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Ended in 1918; workforce: gender/ethnicity segregation; women shifted jobs
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Strikes; disputes developed; racial inequality workforce; ended 1924.
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The Great Depression was a trying time for United States citizens. It affected everyone. Greatly due to the development of labor movements due to the increasing rates of unemployment. Lasted until 1939.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt established the National Recovery Administration. Their goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. (Wikipedia)
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Founded by John L. Lewis; He was the driving force behind the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), which established the United Steel Workers of America and helped organize millions of other industrial workers in the 1930's. (Wikipedia)
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Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees; Goodyear Tire Company Strike
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Lasted until 1945; equal pay for equal work; gender inequality; economic status- supporting war.
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Unions grew; "The law protects the right of employees to choose or reject union representation. It also both protects and limits union efforts to represent an employer's workers."
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Taft/Hartley Act; United States federal law restricting the activities and power of labor unions.
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Merged AFL & CIO under one Union Organization
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Labor Movement declined;
Important changes in the structure of the American economy -
Equal pay for equal work; Equal pay relates to the full range of payments and benefits; Equal Pay Act 1963 signed by John F. Kennedy;
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21st century; New challenges: global market, technology, specialized skills, automation, union activity, transportation; new kinds of jobs,
