Labor History
This 1938 federal law established rules for minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Negotiations between employers and employee representatives over wages and working conditions are called this.
What is collective bargaining?
Payment based on the number of hours worked is commonly called this.
What is an hourly wage?
Labor Day in the United States is celebrated on the first one of these days in September.
What is Monday?
This 1894 strike involved workers at a company that manufactured railroad sleeping cars
What was the Pullman Strike?
This deadly 1911 factory fire in New York City killed 146 garment workers.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
Samuel Gompers was a longtime leader of this major American labor federation.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
Extra pay earned for working beyond standard hours is called this.
What is overtime?
Labor Day became a federal holiday in this year.
What is 1894?
This famous 1936–1937 labor action involved auto workers occupying factories in Michigan.
What was the Flint Sit-Down Strike?
This movement pushed for the idea that workers should spend “eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what we will.”
What is the Eight-Hour Day Movement?
This radical labor organization founded in 1905 was nicknamed “the Wobblies.”
What is the Industrial Workers of the World?
A worker paid a percentage of the sales they generate earns this type of compensation.
What is a commission?
This U.S. president signed legislation making Labor Day a federal holiday.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
This violent 1892 labor conflict occurred at a Pennsylvania steel plant.
What was the Homestead Strike?
This 1935 law, also known as the Wagner Act, strengthened workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively.
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
This labor leader co-founded the United Farm Workers and worked alongside Cesar Chavez.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
The percentage of the labor force actively seeking work but unable to find it is this economic measurement.
What is the unemployment rate?
This state became the first to officially recognize Labor Day as a legal holiday.
What is Oregon?
This 1912 Massachusetts textile strike became known as the “Bread and Roses” strike.
What was the Lawrence Textile Strike?
This federal agency was created by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
What is OSHA?
This 1947 law restricted certain union activities and is commonly named after two U.S. senators.
What is the Taft-Hartley Act?
When prices rise and each dollar buys fewer goods and services, this is occurring.
What is inflation?
The first Labor Day celebration took place in this U.S. city in 1882.
What is New York City?
This nationwide labor uprising began with railroad workers in 1877.
What was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
This late-19th-century organization was one of the largest and most influential labor organizations in American history, welcoming skilled and unskilled workers.
What were the Knights of Labor?
This labor organization was created in 1955 through the merger of two major labor federations.
What is the AFL-CIO?
The total value of goods and services produced by a country's economy is commonly measured by this acronym.
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
The first Labor Day celebration was organized by this labor organization, often abbreviated CLU.
What is the Central Labor Union?
This 1886 Chicago labor protest ended in violence after a bomb exploded at a workers' rally.
What was the Haymarket Affair?
This Supreme Court case in 1908 upheld restrictions on the working hours of women.
What is Muller v. Oregon?
This tactic involves workers refusing to handle goods produced by a particular company or group.
secondary boycott or a refusal to handle
This term refers to the total number of people working or actively seeking employment.
What is the labor force?
Two men are commonly credited with proposing Labor Day; both had this surname.
What is McGuire/Maguire?
This 1934 West Coast labor action shut down ports and helped establish union power among longshore workers.
What was the West Coast Waterfront Strike?
This economist's theory of capitalism emphasized conflict between the owners of production and the working class.
Who is Karl Marx?
This phrase describes a worker organization that represents employees from many different industries rather than just one trade.
What is an industrial union?
This economic concept measures how much output is produced for a given amount of labor.
What is labor productivity?
Labor Day was created partly to recognize the contributions of this broad group to America's prosperity.
Who are American workers?
This 1902 strike involving coal miners eventually required intervention by President Theodore Roosevelt.
What was the Anthracite Coal Strike?