Flashcards to study the History of American Unions
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| In this Massachusetts case in 1842 strikes were found to be legal, but unions were declared illegal | show 🗑
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| show | The Lowell Factory
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| show | Knights of Labor
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| Groups used to spy on unions for companies; also called in as strikebreakers | show 🗑
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| Agreements which forced employees to agree not to strike or join a union | show 🗑
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| Started at the B&O RR in 1877 and soon spread across the country; for the first time federal troops were used to quell a strike; 100+ strikers killed, but workers had a sense of their power | show 🗑
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| Confrontation between strikers and police at the McCormick Reaper works in Chicago; several protesters shot by police; served to discredit the Knights of Labor | show 🗑
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| show | Homestead Strike
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| Strike led by Eugene V. Debs and the American Railroad Union protesting poor wages at a train car company; Cleveland stopped the strike by granting an injunction against the strikers | show 🗑
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| show | Danbury Hatters Strike
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| show | Anthracite Coal Strike
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| A fire at this company killed 141 workers who were locked in the factory and were unable to escape; prodded the government to reform labor laws | show 🗑
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| show | International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)
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| show | Clayton Antitrust Act
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| show | Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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| Strikes after WWI fueled fear of anarchism and lead to the Red Scare | show 🗑
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| show | Wagner Act
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| show | Fair Labor Standards Act
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| show | United Auto Workers Union
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| Organization founded by John L. Lewis of the UMWs a union for autoworkers, steelworkers, and electrical workers | show 🗑
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| show | Taft-Hartley Act
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| Laws that outlawed closed unionized shops | show 🗑
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| formed by Uriah Stephens in Philadelphia, originally a secret society, started in Dec. of 1869 | show 🗑
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| show | Railway Strike of 1877
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| show | Haymarket Riot
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| show | Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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| Set up by Samuel Gompers as a a collection of trade unions that will play a major role in the labor movement throughout the century to come. | show 🗑
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| show | IWW
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| show | Federal Department of Labor Established
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| show | Clayton Act
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| establishes an 8-hour workday for employees of interstate railroads, with overtime for working longer hours. in Sept. of 1916 | show 🗑
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| Proclaimed that yellow-dog contracts, which require a worker to promise to not join a union, were unenforceable. Also limited courts' power to issue injunctions against strikes, Mar. 1932 | show 🗑
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| becomes Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, the first woman in U.S. history to hold a cabinet post. She favors a comprehensive, pro-labor agenda including minimum wage laws, unemployment insurance, old-age pensions and abolition of child labor. | show 🗑
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| show | Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
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| Two rival labor unions that merge in 1955, lead by George Meany | show 🗑
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| show | Smith-Connally Act
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| prohibits discrimination in wages on the basis of sex, 1963 | show 🗑
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| An organization of workers joined to protect their common interests and improve their working conditions. | show 🗑
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| show | strike
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| workers who crossed the picket line during a strike, or unemployed people desperate for jobs | show 🗑
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| the process by which union leaders and management meet to reach an agreement to improve workers' jobs | show 🗑
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| show | Mary Harris"Mother" Jones
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| show | Samual Gompers
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| closing the factory to break a labor movement | show 🗑
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| workers being told as a condition for employment that they must sign an agreement not to join a union | show 🗑
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