Workers Endure Difficulties
small factories where employees have to work long hours under poor conditions for little pay.
sweatshops
process in which employees negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions.
collective bargaining
1886 labor-related protest in Chicago which ended in deadly violence.
Haymarket Riot
communities in which residents rely upon one company for jobs, housing, and buying goods
company towns
system or theory under which the means of production are publicly controlled and regulated rather than owned by individuals
socialism
1892 strike against Carnegies steelworks in Homestead Pennsylvania.
Homestead strike
labor union that sought to organize all workers and focused on broad social reforms.
Knights of Labor
Former railroad worker that helped found 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 the railroad before rising to become mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1870s.
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violent 1894 railway workers strike which began outside 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