WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Productivity in the workplace.
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Meeting people from all different backgrounds
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Cooperation with other people to improve worker safety.
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The freedom to work whenever they wanted to.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Highlights from the 2022 data: The highest unionization rates were among workers in protective service occupations (34.6 percent) and in education, training, and library occupations (33.7 percent).
Detailed explanation-2: -For those in the industrial sector, organized labor unions fought for better wages, reasonable hours and safer working conditions. The labor movement led efforts to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired.
Detailed explanation-3: -Child labor became a major issue. Dangerous working conditions, long hours, and concern over wages and child labor contributed to the growth of labor unions. In the decades after the Civil War, workers organized strikes and work stoppages that helped to publicize their problems.
Detailed explanation-4: -The most famous of these radical unions was the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) whose members were generally known as the “Wobblies.” This union was organized in 1905 in direct opposition to the American Federation of Labor (AFL), an association of skilled trades unions organized in 1886.