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Labor Movement

By TQmats

  • Collective Bargaining

    first used in 1891, to make it that employers and a group of workers and nagotiate terms of working conditions

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
    fire in a garment factory resulted in the deaths on 146 young women

  • WWI

    WWI
    lasted 1914-1918, resulting in high death tolls from trench warfare.

  • Ludlow Massacre

    Ludlow Massacre
    in southern colorado, a massive caol miners strike was going on when a fire started in a large tent ending up in killing 19-24 people

  • Clayton Act

    was added to anittrust laws to prevent antipompetitive practices

  • Adamson Act

    Adamson made it so workers only had n eight hour work day

  • IWW

    IWW
    could support 300,000 workers in its peak in 1923

  • Samuel Gompers

    Samuel Gompers
    Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, and died 1924

  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs
    Very known Socialist in the USA, was none for being in the socialist party of america, and running for President

  • ILGWU

    ILGWU
    at one time the largest union group in the USA, they tried to make fair wages between women

  • Mother Jones

    American labor and community organizer

  • Yellow-dog contract

    oath that a worker is not apart of a labor union

  • Davis-Bacon Act

    Davis-Bacon Act
    made it so the requirement for paying the local wages of workers

  • Norris–La Guardia Act

    Norris–La Guardia Act
    banned yellow-dog contracts

  • Open Shop

    made it so that employers didnt have to only hire workers from a union

  • Department Of Labor

    Department Of Labor
    occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics

  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    when american stocks were way down, and everyfelt its impact on the US population

  • CIO

    CIO
    helped union workers establish rights

  • National Labor Relations Act

    National Labor Relations Act
    United States federal law that protects the rights of employees in the private sector

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

    made it so there was a national minimum wage, and oppressed child labor

  • Emma Goldman

    Emma Goldman
    died, worte many anarchist books, didnt like big corperations rulling over everyone

  • Closed Shop

    made it so that corporations only hired union workers only

  • Contracts

    contracts were used to legally have a deal with corporations and its workers