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It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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It was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. They promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman, rejected socialism and anarchism, demanded the eight-hour day, and promoted the producers ethic of republicanism.
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The Haymarket Riot was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.
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It was an industrial lockout strike. It resulted in a major defeat for the union and a setback for their efforts to unionize steelworkers.
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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States. It affected most rail lines west of Detroit and at its peak involved some 250,000 workers in 27 states.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911 was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in US history.
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The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in the labor history of the United States at the time. It was a result of poor conditions and the Great Depression
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The textile workers' strike of 1934 was the largest strike in the labor history of the United States at the time. It was a result of poor conditions and the Great Depression
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It guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take collective action including strike if necessary.
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one of the first sit-down strikes in the United States, autoworkers occupy the General Motors Fisher Body Plant Number One in Flint, Michigan. The autoworkers were striking to win recognition of the United Auto Workers (UAW) as the only bargaining agent for GM’s workers
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IT was a 116 day labor union strike by member of the United Steel Workers. The strike occurred over management's demand that the union give up a contract clause which limited management's ability to change the number of workers assigned to a task or to introduce new work rules or machinery which would result in reduced hours or numbers of employees.
