The Growth of the American Labor Movement
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Labor Force Distribution
1870-1900
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The Changing American
Labor Force
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Child Labor
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Child Labor
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“Galley Labor”
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Conditions
• Long hours• Less than $1.00 per week• Difficult, dangerous and unhealthy work
– Heavy machinery– Could lose finger, arm or be scalped by
machinery– Dusty, cold/hot respiratory conditions
• Corporal punishment
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Child Labor today?
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Labor Video
• Video start at 7:21
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Political and Social Opposition
• Workers who wanted to organize a union faced several major problems.
• There were no laws giving workers the right to organize or requiring owners to negotiate.
• Courts often ruled that strikes were conspiracies to stop trade and organizers could be fined or jailed.
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Marxism
• Unions also suffered from the perception that they threatened American institutions.
• In the late 1800’s the ideas Karl Marx, called Marxism, had become very influential in Europe.
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Marxism• Marx primary argument was that the basic force
shaping capitalist society was the class struggle between workers and owners.
• He believed that workers would eventually revolt, seize control of the factories, and overthrow the government.
• Marx claimed that after the revolution, the government would seize all private property and create a socialist society where wealth was evenly divided.
• Marx believed eventually the government would fade away leaving a Communist society where classes did not exist.
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Marxist and Anarchist
• Many labor supporters agreed with Marx, however others supported Anarchism.
• Anarchists believe society does not need government. Some at the time believed that a few acts of violence could ignite a revolution to topple the government.
• In the late 1800’s, anarchists assassinated government officials and set off bombs all across Europe hoping to trigger a revolution.
• The tens of thousands of European immigrants brought these ideas with them to the United States.
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• Nativism or anti-immigrant feelings-was already strong in the United States.
• People began to associate immigrant workers with revolution and anarchism, they became increasingly suspicious of unions.
• These fears and the governments duty to maintain law and order led officials use courts, police and the army to break up strikes and unions.
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Labor Unrest: 1870-1900
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The Molly Maguires(1875)
JamesMcParland
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The Corporate “Bully-Boys”:
PinkertonAgents
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Management vs. Labor
“Tools” of Management
“Tools” of Labor
“scabs” P. R. campaign Pinkertons lockout blacklisting yellow-dog
contracts court injunctions open shop
boycotts sympathy
demonstrations informational
picketing closed shops organized
strikes “wildcat” strikes
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A Striker Confronts a SCAB!
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Knights of Labor
Terence V. Powderly
An injury to one is the concern of all!
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Knights of Labor
Knights of Labor trade card
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Goals of the Knights of Laborù Eight-hour workday.
ù Workers’ cooperatives.ù Worker-owned factories.ù Abolition of child and prison labor.ù Increased circulation of greenbacks.ù Equal pay for men and women.ù Safety codes in the workplace.ù Prohibition of contract foreign labor.ù Abolition of the National Bank.
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• Graphic Organizer on major labor strikes
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
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The Tournament of Today:
A Set-to Between Labor and Monopoly
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Anarchists Meet on the Lake Front in
1886
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Haymarket Riot (1886)
McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.
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Haymarket Martyrs
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Governor John Peter Altgeld
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The American Federation
of Labor: 1886
Samuel Gompers
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How the AF of L Would Help the
Workersù Catered to the skilled worker.ù Represented workers in matters of
national legislation.ù Maintained a national strike fund.ù Evangelized the cause of unionism.ù Prevented disputes among the many
craft unions.ù Mediated disputes between
management and labor.ù Pushed for closed shops.
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Homestead Steel Strike
(1892)
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron & Steel Workers
Homestead Steel Works
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Big Corporate Profits!
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Attempted Assassination!
Henry Clay FrickAlexander Berkman
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A “Compa
nyTown”:Pullman
, IL
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Pullman Cars
A Pullman porter
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The Pullman Strike of 1894
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President Grover Cleveland
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card
will be delivered!
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The Pullman Strike of 1894
Government by injunction!
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The Socialists
Eugene V. Debs
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International Workers of the World (“Wobblies”)
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“Big Bill” Haywood of the
IWW
Violence was justified to overthrow capitalism.
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I W W & the Internationale
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The Hand That Will Rule the World One
Big Union
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Mother Jones: “The Miner’s Angel”
Mary Harris. Organizer for the
United MineWorkers.
Founded the SocialDemocratic Party in 1898.
One of the founding members of the I. W. W. in 1905.
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Lawrence, MA Strike: 1912
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The “Bread & Roses” Strike
DEMANDS:ù 15¢/hr. wage increase.ù Double pay for overtime.ù No discrimination against strikers.ù An end to “speed-up” on the
assembly line.ù An end to discrimination against
foreign immigrant workers.
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Lawrence, MA Strike: 1912
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The “Formul
a”
unions + violence + strikes + socialists + immigrants = anarchists
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Labor Union Membership
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“Solidarity Forever!”by Ralph Chapin (1915)
When the union's inspiration through the workers‘ blood shall run,There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,But the union makes us strong!
CHORUS:Solidarity forever,Solidarity forever,Solidarity forever,For the union makes us strong!
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Come On and
Sing Along!!
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“Solidarity Forever!”Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?For the union makes us strong!
CHORUS:Solidarity forever,Solidarity forever,Solidarity forever,For the union makes us strong!
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“Solidarity Forever!” * * * *Through our sisters and our brothers we can make our union strong,For respect and equal value, we have done without too long.We no longer have to tolerate injustices and wrongs,Yes, the union makes us strong!
CHORUS:Solidarity forever,Solidarity forever,Solidarity forever,For the union makes us strong!
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Workers Benefits Today
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The Rise & Decline of Organized Labor
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Right-to-Work States Today
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Unionism & Globalization?