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Industrial Revolution
As late as the year 1900, most industrial workers in the United States still worked a 10-hour day (12 hours in the steel industry), yet earned from 20% to 40% less than the minimum deemed necessary for a decent life. the Industrial Revolution witnessed the triumph of a middle class of industrialists and businessmen over a landed class of nobility and gentry. For example, a group of English workers known as Luddites formed to protest against industrialisation and sometimes sabotaged factories. -
Civil War
Made more factories and had more people to get work. Caused an increase in jobs. Droped the unemployement rate. -
Haymarket Square Riot
The Haymarket affair was a setback for the American labor movement and its fight for the eight-hour day. trade union activities continued to show signs of growth and vitality. culminating later in 1886 with the establishment of the Labor Party of Chicago. -
Great Southwest Railroad Strike
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Homestead Strike
The dispute occurred between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (the AA) and the Carnegie Steel Company. It was a craft union representing skilled iron and steel workers. the AA saw substantial gains after the 1889 strike. -
Ludlow Massacre
the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history. influcenced people that kids should not work that long. It shows what happens if a strike lasts to long. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers. -
The Wagner Act
Works right to form unions. The strikes that people were protected. preventing employers from interfering with workers. -
The Fair labor standards Act
It was about Minimum wage. It was also about you should get oaid if you work overtime. Plus it talked about how childern should not have to work as much because they dont want them warn out. -
World War 2
World War Two couldn’t budge the organized labor unions into concessions with their corporate counterparties. There were no fewer than 4950 work stoppages costing 8.7 million labor days—enough to build two thousand B-17's. The week before D-Day, twenty-eight factories were on strike in Detroit alone. -
The Slave Labor Act
the bill could be seen as a response by business to the post–World War II labor upsurge To promote the full flow of commerce. To promote the full flow of commerce, to prescribe the legitimate rights of both employees and employers in their relations affecting commerce.
