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Objective 2.3- Workers and Labor Unions

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the success of big business in the Gilded Age had a dark side it was the exploitation of Labor apologies and Innovations made workers less valuable to firms  skilled and unskilled labor replaced by new machinery and new equipment in all areas of the workforce received low wages were so low that everyone in the family needed to work in order for the family to survive including young children working conditions were so that one in every three hundred workers Rider injured or killed on the job workers also faced long hours most workers had to work 7 days a week 12 hours a day with no sick leave and no vacation and poor sanitation most factories had dirty floors and poor ventilation lead to health problems for the workers inside slavery was a common practice during the Gilded Age here you can see some images of children working children children is there able to manipulate Machinery in ways that larger adults could not they could reach into machines and fix them without having to take them apart this also made children more prone injury due to these conditions workers demanded change  these workers follow the example of robber barons and merge and Consolidated into monopolies of the these monopolies recalled labor unions workers wanted to get better wages and better working conditions from their bosses on the earliest labor unions that formed the United States was the National Labor game also known as the nlu it linked 300 unions in 13 different states into one Central labor union group man to the National Labor Union what's 8 hour work day for all workers workers typically work 12 to 14 hours a day the next labor union is the Knights of the Knights of Labor focus on individuals and called for equal pay for women as unions became more popular and Union membership grew across the country sensation begin to sweat more groups for needed to focus attention on specific types of workers one such group was the American Federation of Labor also known the AFL founded by Labour leader Samuel Gompers the AFL organized skilled labor in what we call craft unionism The Craft Captain use and prefers the fact the workers represented by the AFL had specific skills that were valuable to their bosses this made it harder to replace them and therefore made them more valium the next labor union is the industrial workers of the world also known as the iww was founded by Eugene vdubs Debs was a spokesman for dustrial unionism organized unskilled and semi-skilled laborers these are workers that typically worked in factories Eugene BDubs and the iww believe that capitals greed has failed American workers and called for a radical socialist revolution in America death in his ideas became so popular is it under the Socialist Party in 1912 actually winning some boats in order to achieve their goals unions use diverse strategies play strategies were peaceful some not so peaceful when strategy was collective bargaining collective bargaining was when unions negotiated deals with their bosses as a the principle behind collective bargaining is strength in numbers if you negotiate on your own it's easier for your boss to deny what you want you can negotiate as a group it gives you a little bit more power in your negotiation the next strategy that was used was strikes strikes or work stoppages in which Unions would pressure firms with shutting down their factories with the threat of losing profits strikes were used in various degrees by various unions they have fell strut often while the Knights of Labor writing as a last resort with their Newfound power and different techniques in the Goshi ation the several events that came to their fine the new era of Labor organizing the first was the great strike of 1877 railroad workers struck over wage cuts that resulted in riots across the city which was put down by federal troops scores cracking workers were killed and the federal government asserted its power to regulate commerce in the Constitution by using Force to put down to strike the next event is the hey Mark can 1886 labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turn into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police at least 8 people died as a result of the violence that day the third event is the Pullman Strike do you remember the town of Pullman created by railroad magnate and George workers eventually struck against Pullman and stopped all work in the town in order to break up the effectiveness of the strike Pullman brought in scabs scabs are work you were hired to replace striking workers eventually the Pullman Strike was broken up by the feds and the town collapsed so why does it matter  labor unions for big business considered workers when making their decisions it was no longer purely about Prophet it was now that work conditions and higher wages for their workers labor unions power in America they make their voices heard with protests and every politician who now runs Rob what's address the rights of workers in working conditions in order to get working votes and finally we celebrate Labor Day at the end of August and early September every year commemorate the contributions of the labor movement in America

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