WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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focused on the needs of skilled workers
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ended the use of blacklists by employers
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rejected the use of strikes and boycotts
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called for government ownership of industry
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was the American Federation of Labor and why was it successful? The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was a national union that provided resources and support to trade and craft workers. The AFL was successful because it allowed smaller unions to retain their own autonomy after joining.
Detailed explanation-2: -The American Federation of Labor supplanted the Knights of Labor, and it developed a quite different philosophy. Rather than trying to abolish the wage-labor system, it sought to use strikes to gain higher wages, lower working hours, and better working conditions for its members.
Detailed explanation-3: -The AFL focused on winning economic benefits for its members through collective bargaining. As a federation, it represented several national craft unions that each retained autonomous operations. The Knights, by contrast, represented both craft and unskilled workers in a single national union.
Detailed explanation-4: -Under Sweeney and the federation’s former political director Steven Rosenthal (who subsequently founded America Coming Together), the AFL-CIO has been tremendously successful in increasing turnout among voters in union households through coordinated worker-to-worker contact.