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Mother Jones
Was very into unions and organized major strikes that caused change -
Samuel Gompers
Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as that organization's president from 1886 to 1894 and from 1895 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL, trying to minimize jurisdictional battles. He promoted "thorough" organization and collective bargaining to secure shorter hours and higher wages, the first essential steps, he believed, to emancipating labor. He also encouraged the AFL to take political action to " -
Eugene V. Debs
He was one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. He was a fan of Karl Marx and socialist ideas. -
Emma Goldman
She was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches (Muckracker). Help develop the anarchest party -
AFL (American Federation of Labor)
This was one of the first unions in America. Smauel Gompers was the first presedent of it. -
Collective Bargaining
It is a process of negotiations between employers and a group of employees trying to reach agreements that regulate working conditions. The final agreements usually set out wage scales, working hours, training, health and safety, overtime, grievance mechanisms, and rights to participate in workplace or company affairs -
IWW
an international union. At its peak in 1923, the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after severe government repression as part of the first Red Scare and a 1924 split brought on by internal conflict. IWW membership does not require that one work in a represented workplace,[3] nor does it exclude membership in another labor union.[4] -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. It was also the second deadliest disaster in New York City – after the burning of the General Slocum on June 15, 1904 – until the destruction of the World Trade Center 90 years later. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths. Most of the vi -
Department of Labor
Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. The department is headed by the United States Secretary of Labor -
Ludlow Massacre
The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914. The massacre resulted in the violent deaths of between 19 and 25 people; sources vary but all sources include two women and eleven children, asphyxiated and burned to death under a single tent. The deaths occurred after a daylong fight between militia and camp guards against strikin -
Clayton Antitrust Act
They tried to prevent anticompetitive practices. They specified particular prohibited conduct, the three-level enforcement scheme, the exemptions, and the remedial measures -
Adamson Act
Established an 8-hr work day and additional pay for overtime work. William C. Adamson sponsored the act. -
ILGWU
one of the largest labor unions in the United States, one of the first U.S. unions to have a primarily female membership, and a key player in the labor history of the 1920s and 1930s -
Open Shop
a place of employment at which one is not required to join or financially support a union (closed shop) as a condition of hiring or continued employment. Open shop is also known as a merit shop. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s.[1] It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century.[2] -
Davis-Bacon Act
It establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects.It applies to “contractors and subcontractors performing on federally funded or assisted contracts in excess of $2,000 for the construction, alteration, or repair (including painting and decorating) of public buildings or public works -
Norris LaGuardia Act
banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against workers joining trade unions. -
Closed Shop
It is a form of union security agreement under which the employer agrees to hire union members only, and employees must remain members of the union at all times in order to remain employed otherwise they may be fired. -
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
A federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. They required union members to swear they were not communists to be apart of this. -
Fair Labor Standards Act
The FLSA introduced a maximum 44-hour seven-day workweek,[3] established a national minimum wage,[4] guaranteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor", a term that is defined in the statute.[5][6] It applies to employees engaged in interstate commerce or employed by an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce,[7] unless the employer can claim an exemption from coverage. -
Minimum Wage
The legal minimum amount of money you can pay someone per hour -
Contract
It is an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified
