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American Federation of Labor
One of the first federations of labor unions in the US. It was the largest union grouping in the US for the first half of the 20th century. It was dominated by craft unions. They eventually merged with CIO in 1955. -
International Ladies Garment Union (ILGWU)
It was once the biggest labor union in the US. In 1909, the first well known stike lasted for 14 weeks: "the uprising of 20,000". -
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
She was a labor community organizer. She then helped coordinate major strikes. -
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Eugene V. Dusbs
He helped found the Industial Wokers of the World (IWW/Wobblies) but soon left because of its radicalism. He then became a candidate for the Socialist Party in 1908, 1912 and 1920. He was convicted for many things at different times (violation of the Espoinage Act and sedition). -
Minimum Wage
It's purpose is to provide income equality in the work force. it was also a way to reduce poverty, and it was proposed as a way to control the proliferation of sweat shops in manufacturing industries. -
Department of Labor
Purpose: foster, promote and develop the welfare of wage garners, job seekers and retirees of the USA. Also, it's made to improve working conditions, advance opportunities for profitable employment, and assure work-related benefits and rights. -
The Clayton Act
Was used to exempt unions from the scope of Antitrust Laws(laws used to regulate coporations and used to keep companies from becoming too large and fixing prices). -
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World War One
One of the primary goals of the ICFTU was to support the war and its soldiers -
Ludlow Massacre
An attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado. -
Adamson Act
Regulated the hours of worker in private companies. It made an eight-hour work day, will additional overtime pay for employees in the operation of trains for interstate railway carriers. -
Davis-Bacon Act
Establishes the requirement for paying the local preballing wages on public works projects. -
Norris-LaGuardia Act
States that in yellow-dog contracts (where workers agree as a condition of employment to not join a labor union) are unenforceable in federal court and establishes that employees are free to form unions without employer interference and can withdraw from the federal courts jurisdiction relative to the issuance of injunctions in nonviolent labor disputes. -
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Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Federation of unions that organized in industrial unions in the US and Canada. It was open to African Americans and grew rapidly during the Great Depression. -
Wagner Act
Protects the rights of employees in the private sector to discuss organizing and workplace issues with coworkers, engage in collective bargaining (process of negotiations between employers and a group of employees aimed at reaching agreements that regulate working conditions), and take part in strikes. -
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
It introduced a max 44 hour 7 day workweek, established a new minimum wage, guarenteed "time-and-a-half" for overtime and prohibited most employeement of minors.