Exploration
Small factories where employees have to work long hours under poor conditions for little pay.
Sweatshops
1886 labor-related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence.
Haymarket Riot
System or theory under which the means of production are publicaly controlled and regulated rather than owned by individuals.
Socalism
He was an American labor leader who led the Knights of Labor for several years in the late nineteenth century with the goal of leading American workers out of what he saw as the bondage of wage labor.
Powderly, Terence V.
Communities in which residents rely upon one company for jobs, housing, and buying goods.
Company towns
1892 strike against Carnegie's steelworks in Pennsylvania.
Homestead Strike
Process in which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions.
Collective Bargaining
He was an American labor leader and the first president of the American Federation of Labor. He advocated organized strikes and boycotts to achieve the organization's goal.
Gompers, Samuel
Violent 1894 railway workers strike which began outside of Chicago and spread nationwide.
Pullman Strike
labor union that organized skilled workers in a specific trade and made specific demands rather than seeking broad changes.
American Federation of Labor
He was a labor organizer and social leader who advocated for the rights of railway workers. He ran for president five times between 1900 and 1920 as a candidate for the Socialist Party.
Debs, Eugene V.
labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on broad social reforms.
Knight of Labor