WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Working conditions improved because of strikes.
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Most strikes were perceived as dangerous and out of control.
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Due to strikes, the Knights of Labor was successful.
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Employers worked hard to keep employees happy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -1. Homestead Steel Strike (1892) Illustration from Harper’s Weekly depicting the Homestead Strike of 1892.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -There were 37, 000 strikes in America from 1881 to 1905. The main goal was control of working conditions, setting uniform wage scales, or to protest the firing of a member. Most strikes were of very short duration. During poor economic times, strikes were violent and less successful.