WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Organization of workers that tried to improve pay and working conditions for its members.
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Organization of workers that tried to improve pay but lower working conditions for its members.
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Organization of workers that tried to lower pay and working conditions for its members.
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Organization of workers that tried to decrease pay but increase working conditions for its members.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) works tirelessly to improve the lives of working people. We are the democratic, voluntary federation of 59 national and international labor unions that represent 12.5 million working people.
Detailed explanation-3: -The American Federation of Labor practiced collective bargaining to negotiate better wages, shorter working hours, safer working conditions, and other benefits for their members.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1881, Samuel Gompers took the lead in organizing the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States of America and Canada. This organization became the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1886, in Columbus, Ohio.