WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Often violence was used by both sides.
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Very few workers participated in them.
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Many were led by ineffective speakers
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Most were settled with collective bargaining.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Strikes figured prominently in the rise of the organized labor movement that began in earnest in the mid-to-late 1800s. Over the years, they played a part in many of the labor movement’s hard-fought gains-from better wages to the eight-hour-work day and other improvements in working conditions.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the United States became a major industrial power, conflict between workers and factory owners intensified. Read about the Homestead Strike and the Pullman Strike, two of the most famous labor battles in American history.
Detailed explanation-3: -A strike is an organized stoppage of work conducted by laborers in order to impose bargaining power against employers. Strikes may be carried out in response to dangerous working conditions, unfair treatment, low wages, or any other workplace grievance that negatively impacts workers’ safety or wellbeing.
Detailed explanation-4: -Effects: The Knights of labor fizzled out, and people shed away from radicalism. Employers became suspicious of union activity, associated/ violence. Public opinion turned against unions, Knights blamed for riot & membership declined.