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The Atlanta's Washerwomen Strike
With slavery less than two decades behind them, thousands of black laundresses went on strike for higher wages, respect for their work and control over how their work was organized. -
The Great Southwest Railroad Strike
Beginning on March 1, 1886, railroad workers in five states struck against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads, owned by Jay Gould. At least ten people were killed. -
The Sherman Antitrust Act
It is a landmark federal statue in the history of United States antitrust law passed by congress in 1890. Passed under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison and it prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators to be anti-competitive. -
Homestead Strike
In Pennsylvania and the ensuing bloody battle instigated by the steel plant's management remain a transformational moment in U.S. history, leaving scars that have never fully healed after five generations. -
The Battle of Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek was famous for important, dramatic battles where workers fought to win their rights. -
The Pullman Strike
It was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894 and a turning point for US labor law, It pitted the American Railway Union against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. -
The Steel Strike
It wa attempt by the weakened Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War 1. -
The Great Railroad Strike
It was a nationwide strike of railroad workers in the United States by seven of the sixteen railroad labor organizations in existence at the time, the strike continued into the month of August before collapsing. -
The Norris Laguardia Act
It is a United States federal law on US labor law. It banned yellow-dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes and created a positive right of noninterference by employers against joining trade unions. -
The Fair Labor Standards Act
Established minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards effecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector in Federal, State, and local government.
