Explain the rise of organized labor unions in the United States starting in the late 1800s. Show how labor unions protected American workers after the Great Depression with the passage of the National Labor Rel
In the 1890s, many of the craft unions bonded together to form the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Early strikes and conflicts during this period included the United Mine Workers and the Danbury Hatters case in 1902. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Congress of Industrial...
Strikes have been a powerful, sometimes perilous tactic for workers as they've fought for better wages and working conditions.
Does unionization introduce democracy into the employment relationship? Explain. What trends have worked against the union movement during the last half century? What has happened to the effectiveness of strikes and why? What was the labor movement's mission in its...
The movement in organized labor from 1875 to 1900 to improve the position of workers was unsuccessful because of the inherent weaknesses of unions and the failures of their strikes, the negative public attitudes toward organized labor, widespread government corruption, and the tendency of government ...
the Knights of Labor began to act increasingly like a rival trade-union movement, carrying on strikes and organizing workers along industrial rather than craft lines. When the Knights rejected a proposal reaffirming the historic separation of trade-union and labour-reform functions, the alarmed intern...
During the 1880s, that division fatally eroded. Despite its labor reform rhetoric, the Knights of Labor attracted large numbers of workers hoping to improve their immediate conditions. As the Knights carried on strikes and organized along industrial lines, the threatened national trade unions demanded...
(Gesetz zur Ordnung der nationalen Arbeit) of 20 January 1934, theautonomyof trade unions and employer organizations to reach collective agreements was abolished. Strikes were illegal. The collective actors were integrated in theDeutsche Arbeitsfrontand put under the control of state executors. The ...
Moreover, strike activity has paralleled the downward membership trends. In 1997, there were 29 strikes involving 1,000 or more workers; these strikes were able to draw a total of 339,000 workers. By way of comparison, 255 strikes of similar scale took place in 1979, involving a total of...
Before the 1920s, people did not have the right to organize into unions nor were they permitted to strike. Early in the 20th century, unions started using strikes to get higher wages, which often lead to violence. This turned the public against unions, until the Great Depression, when the...