WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Railroad Strike of 1877
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Homestead Strike of 1892
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Pullman Strike of 1894
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Teacher’s Strike of 2019
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Detailed explanation-1: -Responding to layoffs, wage cuts, and firings, workers at Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago went on strike, and, eventually, some 125, 000–250, 000 railroad workers in 27 states joined their cause, stifling the national rail network west of Chicago.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the summer of 1894 members of the American Railway Union representing the strikers succeeded in paralyzing the American railroad network west of Chicago by refusing to handle the popular Pullman cars. A federal judge’s injunction against the Union boycott turned the strike’s tide in favor of the Pullman Company.
Detailed explanation-3: -The companies won a court injunction against the strikers, and when the American Federation of Labor ordered their members back to work, the strike was defeated. One result was a search for a more peaceful mechanism to settle railroad labor disputes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Pullman strike brought Eugene Debs national attention, and it led directly to his conversion to socialism. The events of the strike led other Americans to begin a quest for achieving more harmonious relations between capital and labor while protecting the public interest.