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Lowell Mill Women Create First Union of Working Women
Half a century before the better-known mass movements for workers' rights in the United States, the Lowell mill women organized, went on strike and mobilized in politics when women couldn't even vote and created the first union of working women in American history. -
Atlanta's Washerwomen Strike
With the official end of slavery less than two decades before, thousands of black laundresses went on strike for higher wages, respect for their work and control over how their work was organized. The laundresses took on Atlanta’s business and political establishment and gained so much support they threatened to call a general strike, which would have shut the city down. -
Sherman Antitrust
landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law or "competition law" passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison. -
The Battle of Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek had become a boomtown after gold was discovered. Some 150 mines sprang up. So did a strong miners union—the Free Coinage Union No. 19, which was part of the militant Western Federation of Miners. -
Boer War
The war started with the British overconfident and under-prepared.[11] The Boers were very well armed and struck first, besieging Ladysmith, Kimberley, and Mafeking in early 1900, and winning important battles at Colenso, Magersfontein and Stormberg. -
McKees Rock Strike
"The greatest labor fight in all my history in the labor movement." Yet today, few remember this struggle when immigrant workers rose up and changed the course of American unionism. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The shirtwaist makers’ story was so compelling because it brought attention to the events leading up to the fire. After the fire, their story inspired hundreds of activists across the state and the nation to push for fundamental reforms. -
Norris LaGuardia
All workers did not agree to join a union. further restricted the use of court injunctions in labor disputes against strikes, picketing, and boycotts. -
Fair Labor Standard
United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. It also prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor". -
The Great Postal Strike
200,000 postal workers had a different view. For them, the Great Postal Strike of 1970 was the moment they were "standing 10 feet tall instead of groveling in the dust," as a Manhattan letter carrier put it. They got fed up, joined together, and transformed both the Postal Service and their own lives forever.
