Federal Legislation that started private sector unionization and collective bargaining

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    Indentured Servants/Apprentice

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    Sweatshops

  • American Federation of Labor

  • Haymarket Square Affair

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    Wobblies - Industrial Workers of the World

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    African Americans left the south to take railroad jobs in the north

  • The Great Depression

  • One-quarter of the workforce was unemployed

  • CIO tested strengths against Goodyear Tire Company

  • Equal Pay for Equal Work, but was it.....

  • Union Leaders did not fight during WWII

  • Taft Hartley Act - outlawed non-union members

  • AFL and CIO merged to build strength against political pressure

  • King Jr. promotes labor unions

  • Global capitalism negatively impacts big labor