WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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and were largely successful in getting better pay through strikes too during the Gilded Age.
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but were not very successful in getting things from owners during the Gilded Age.
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and became partners with business owners in how to run these businesses during the Gilded Age.
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but the labor union movement would end quickly and does not exist anymore.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The American Federation of Labor Despite this limitation, however, the AFL survived the Gilded Age and would become one of the most powerful labor unions in the new century.
Detailed explanation-2: -For those in the industrial sector, organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions. The labor movement led efforts to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired.
Detailed explanation-3: -Labor unions arose in the nineteenth century as increasing numbers of Americans took jobs in factories, mines, and mills in the growing industrial economy. The Knights of Labor, founded in 1869, was the first major labor organization in the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -Laborers-skilled and unskilled, female and male, black and white-joined together in unions to try to improve their lot. One of the largest employers, the steel mills, often demanded a seven-day workweek. Seamstresses, like factory workers in most industries, worked 12 or more hours a day, six days a week.