factory difficulties
small factories where employees have to work long hours for little money
sweatshops
negotiating as a group with their employer for higher wages or better working conditions
collective bargaining
1866 labor related protest in chicago which ended in deadly
haymarket riot
company towns
economic and political philosophy that favors public, instead of private, control of property and income that spread throughout europe
socialism
1892 stike against carnegeie's steelworks in homestead pennsylvania
homestead strike
labor union that tried to organize all the workers and focused on broad social reforms
knights of labor
former railroad worker that founded american railway union (ARU)
eugene v. debs
in 1879, he took on the leadership of the knights, the son of irish immigrants he had worked as a machinist on railrod before rising to become mayor of scranton pennsylvania in 1870
terence v. powderly
was organized as an industrial union, grouping all railroad workers together rather than into sperate trade unions according to the job they help
american railway union
poor jewish immigrant from england who worked his way up to head the cigarmarkers union in new york
samuel gompers
violent 1894 railway workers strike which began outside of chicago and spread worldwide
pullman strike