WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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broad social reform for laborers
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helping immigrant workers find jobs
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raising money to overthrow large factories
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promoting capitalism among skilled workers
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Detailed explanation-1: -The organization championed broad-ranging social and economic reform, including an eight-hour workday, health and safety laws to protect workers, and a system that would provide for them if they were injured on the job-an early version of workers compensation insurance.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Knights pressed for the eight-hour work day for laborers, and embraced a vision of a society in which workers, not capitalists, would own the industries in which they labored. The Knights also sought to end child labor and convict labor.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 1886, the Knights had more than 700, 000 members. The Knights’ primary demand was for the eight-hour workday. They also called for legislation to end child and convict labor as well as a graduated income tax. They also supported cooperatives.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Knights had a wide-ranging platform for social and economic change. The organization campaigned for an eight-hour work day, the abolition of child labor, improved safety in factories, equal pay for men and women, and compensation for on-the-job injury.