THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
AMERICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION FACTORY SYSTEM AND MARKET REVOLUTION
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The American Federation of Labor
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The American Railway Union
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The International WOmen’s Garment Workers Union
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The Knights of Labor
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first recognized national labor organization was the Knights of Labor. Founded among garment cutters in Philadelphia in 1869, it had a stated goal of an eight-hour workday. Within a few years, its membership reached 750, 000. It grew because it met a critical need.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1925, trade unionist and labor organizer A. Philip Randolph helped found the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first union of predominantly Black members to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor. At its height, the union had about 18, 000 members in North America.
Detailed explanation-3: -The American Federation of Labor. Founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) was a federation of skilled workers in national craft unions that maintained their autonomy while working together to promote labor legislation and support strikes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gompers opened the A.F. of L. to radical and socialist workers and to some semiskilled and unskilled workers. Women, African Americans, and immigrants joined in small numbers. By the 1890s, the Federation had begun to organize only skilled workers in craft unions and became an organization of mostly white men.