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These are two of the three things Mary Harris Jones did for labor?
gave speeches, organized strikes, and educated workers.
Gold miners at Cripple Creek went on strike for higher wages and a shorter workday in this 1893 event.
What was the Colorado Miners Strike?
Mario is best known for his games but in what game did he originally appear?
What is Donkey Kong?
All workers acting together can achieve more. workers had a much greater chance of success in negotiating with management using this method.
What is collective bargaining?
Live in your world, play in ours.
What is Playstation?
This was a famous Irish immigrant who worked for better conditions for miners. She organized strikes and helped educate workers. She was an inspiring speaker.
Who was Mary Harris Jones
These are the three major strikes of the late 1800's.
haymarket riot
homestead strike
pullman strike
colorado miners strike
california railroad strike
This cycle, which happens regularly, takes about a month.
What is the Lunar cycle or the moon revolving around the earth?
Play it loud was this video games slogan.
What is Super Nintendo?
Why did companies begin to use scientific management, AND how did it affect workers?
what was to increase efficiency, but working conditions got worse, injuries increased, and workers started looking for change.
He published the Principles of Scientific Management in 1909, he was an efficiency engineer.
Bosses should view workers as interchangeable parts of the process.
Who was Frederick Taylor?
On May 11, 1894, this stopped traffic on main railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs.
What was the pullman Strike?
This first national labor union, founded in the 1870s, pushed for an eight-hour work day, equal pay for equal work, and an end to child labor. It included both skilled AND unskilled workers.
Who were the Knights of Labor?
The decline of working conditions in factories began with this.
What were the Principles of Scientific Management?
What are Bananas?
He was the leader of the Knights of Labor who ended all the secrecy of the organization.
Who was Terrence V. Powderly?
3. In 1892, this violent action took place at Andrew Carnegie’s steel factory (of the same name) located in Pennsylvania. Union members protested a plan to buy new machinery and cut jobs.
What was the Homestead strike?
This was an early labor union that organized individual national unions, such as the mine workers’ and steelworkers’ unions. This union LIMITED its membership to skilled workers.
Who was the American Federation of Labor?
This holds the record for the most video games sold.
What is tetris?
Unlike the Knights of Labor, the AFL did not allow whom into there union?
Who are unskilled laborers?
He was a Jewish immigrant born in London who rose in the business world and eventually became the first president of the American Federation of Labor.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
This 1894 action halted passenger, freight, and mail trains for months.
It was the first major action in the Bay Area of that state.
What was the California Railroad Strike?
These are the beans that Mexicans once used as payment for goods and services and as food?
What are cocoa beans?
In May of 1886, at a location with the same name, violence erupted between protesters and the police in Chicago. Someone threw a bomb that wounded many police officers and killed eight. Police fired into the crowd, killing several people and wounding 100 others.
What was the Haymarket Riot?
These did not help workers and they usually resulted in violence?
What were early major strikes?