Working Conditions and Economic Ideas
Factories with poor working conditions, long hours, and low pay.
sweatshops
When workers' representatives negotiate with employers about wages, hours, and working conditions.
collective bargaining
Leader of the Knights of Labor during its rise in the 1880s.
Terence V. Powderly
A labor protest in Chicago for an eight-hour workday that turned violent after a bomb exploded.
Haymarket Riot (1886)
Towns where a company owned the housing and stores used by its workers.
company towns
A labor organization that tried to unite many different types of workers and improve their lives.
knights of labor
Founder and longtime leader of the American Federation of Labor.
Samuel Gompers
A violent steelworkers' strike against the Carnegie Steel Company after a dispute over wages and union rights.
Homestead Strike (1892)
An economic and political idea that supports greater social or public control of resources and production to reduce economic inequality.
socialism
A labor federation founded in 1886 that mainly organized skilled workers into craft unions.
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Labor leader who helped organize the American Railway Union and supported workers during the Pullman Strike.
Eugene V. Debs
A railroad workers' strike against the Pullman Company after wage cuts while rents in the company town remained high.
Pullman Strike (1894)