THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Blacks were allowed to join most unions.
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Unions could not negotiate with management.
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Factory owners would hire blacks as strikebreakers.
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Immigrants joined unions at a greater rate than others.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many workers went on strike during this period, hoping to force their employers to raise wages and improve conditions. The largest strike occurred among steel workers in the Midwest from September 1919 to January 1920. Known as the “Great Steel Strike of 1919, ” it eventually involved more than 350, 000 workers.
Detailed explanation-2: -At some point, workers began to revolt. They joined together and created unions in order to fight for safer conditions, better hours, and increased wages. It was easy for factory owners to replace one employee who complained, but much more difficult to replace all their employees if they went on strike together.
Detailed explanation-3: -With the labor movement weakened, union membership plunged in the 1920s from 5 million to 3 million. Business profits, meanwhile, soared. The decade saw an accumulation of wealth that harkened back to the Gilded Age.
Detailed explanation-4: -Although wage disputes have been the single most common cause of strikes, workers have walked off their jobs for many reasons, including efforts to win union recognition, shorten the workday, gain or defend control over the work process, improve working conditions, and protest the disciplining of unionists.