Workers Endure Difficulties
Owned by business and rented out to employees
What is Company Towns?
Factory workers tried to gain more power by using this technique. A relative tool to this technique was strike (workers refused to work until certain demands were met)
What is Collective Bargaining?
Left an unfortunate legacy. The knights of labor fizzled out as people shied away from radicalism.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Working 12 hours a day in a hot, small, dark, and dirty workhouse.
What is Sweatshops?
Uriah Stephens, who had lived and worked around the country, founded this labor union.
What is Knights of Labor?
American Railway Union founded by this former railroad worker. The American Railway Union was organized as an industrial union, grouping all railroad workers together rather than into separate trade unions according to the job they held.
Who is Eugene V Debs?
BONUS:
The industrialization expansion in the United States produced great ______ for the owners of factories, mines, railroads, and large farms.
Hint: A synonym for the answer is "Riches"
What is wealth?
The son of Irish immigrants who had worked as a machinist on the railroad before becoming mayor of Scranton, took on the leadership of the Knights. He abandoned the secretive nature of the Knights.
Who is Terence V Powderly?
This strike escalated and the railroad traffic came to a stop because nearly 300,000 rail workers were refusing to work on, handle, or move any trains that had Pullman cars on them.
What is the Pullman Strike?
A poor Jewish immigrant from England who had worked his way up to head the Cigarmakers Union in New York. He helped found the American Federation of Labor and served as its president for nearly 40 years.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Part of an epidemic of steelworkers and miners strikes that took place as economic depression spread across America. In each case, troops and local militia were called in to suppress the unrest.
What is the Homestead Strike?
In the 1830s, this movement spreaded throughout Europe. Its an economic and political philosophy that favors public, instead of private, control of property.
What is Socialism?
This strike was part of an epidemic of steelworkers and miners strikes that took place as economic depression spread across in America.
What is the Homestead Strike?