Workers (everything)

Question 1

National Labour Union (NLU): first national labour federation focused on 8-hour day

Answer 1

1866

Question 2

Knights of Labour

Answer 2

1869
- first trade union
- wanted to united all workers
- 8 hour work day for women
- 10,000 female and 50,000 AA

Question 3

Great Railroad strike

Answer 3

1877
- pitsburg?
- federal intevention
- injuction and troops

Question 4

The Haymarket riots

Answer 4

1886

Question 5

AFL (American Federation of Labour)

Answer 5

1886
- 2 miilion memebrs by 1914
- skilled workers

Question 6

Louisiana Sugar cane strike

Answer 6

1887

Question 7

Homestead strike

Answer 7

1892
- homestead steel works
- labour lockout and strike in June lasting 148 days
- The AA (amalgmated association of irion and steel workers)
- had to accept wage cuts
- Memebrship for union doubled and local union tresury has $146,000
- Frick orderd the plant to manufactoure large amounts of steel before withdrawing union recognition

Question 8

Pullman strike

Answer 8

1894
- sleep car manufacoture
- made a worker town that he owned everthing
- 1893 economic recession led to Pullman decideing to cut the wages of his workers wilst keeping the rent the same
- wildcat strike
- American railway union (the rementants of KOL)
- 27 cities join the strike
- after 89 days 120,000 workers walker of the job leading to 1/4 million workers
- cleavland and the federal government sent 12,000 troops to break it up
- 30 million in damages and 60 deaths
- used the pinkertons a private company before the federal company came in

Question 9

In Re Debs

Answer 9

1895
- constitutionality of injunctions
- National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)

Question 10

Coal strike

Answer 10

1902
- first time federal government remained nutrual
- employers were not forced to recognise the right to collective bargaining

Question 11

WWI (NWLB)

Answer 11

1914

Question 12

the great steel strike

Answer 12

1919

Question 13

National recovery administration (NRA)

Answer 13

1933

Question 14

The first new deal

Answer 14

1933

Question 15

The 1934 strikes

Answer 15

• textile worker srtikes
• 325,000 textile workers in the south
• by Sept 18 421,000 textile workers were on strike throughout the country
• 1.5 million workers strike including West Coast Waterfront Strike and Textile Workers Strike

Question 16

Wagner act

Answer 16

1935
- pressure applied by the 1934 strike bring about the act
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Question 17

CIO

Answer 17

1935
- unionisation of key industires (steel mining and auto) (ford 1941) purge of communist members weaken CIO the 50s no?

Question 18

SSA

Answer 18

1935
- social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older income after retirement

Question 19

National labour relations board (NLRB)

Answer 19

1935

Question 20

the second new deal

Answer 20

1935-36

Question 21

GM sit down strike

Answer 21

1936

Question 22

Memorial day massacre

Answer 22

1937

Question 23

FLSA, fair labour standards act

Answer 23

1938
- 40-cent-an-hour minimum wage
- 40-hour maximum workweek
- minimum working age of 16

Question 24

WWII

Answer 24

1939

Question 25

Fair employment practice committee

Answer 25

1941 - prevention of racial discrimination in war industiers - hugle significant for AA - expansion of AA middle class

Question 26

union membership by 1945

Answer 26

- Trade unions rose from 8.9 million in 1940 to 14.8 million in 1945 (11% of the workforce 1930 and 36% 1945) - Increases union power - In response to a closed shop it worked out a maintence of membership arrangment that proved to be in the unions advantag - real wages increase increase 70% in industrial earings

Question 27

Taft - Hartly act

Answer 27

1947 Wildcat strikes, solidarity strikes (general strike), mass picketing, closed shop, 'right to work' option out of federal labour laws - Open shop reduced undermines the strength of unions - 60 day prepare period - Cant do wildcat strike - Dismantle wagner

Question 28

AFL - CIO merger

Answer 28

1955

Question 29

Ececutive order 10988

Answer 29

1962

Question 30

Chavez and the UFW (united farm workers)

Answer 30

1966

Question 31

Great postal strike

Answer 31

1970

Question 32

Reagan Presidency and the PACTO strike

Answer 32

1981

Question 33

Phelps Dodge

Question 34

Philip Randolph

Answer 34

- founded the brotherhood of the sleeping car porters in 1925 I belive

Question 35

Bussiness unions V industrial unions

Question 36

Debs vs US

Question 37

National war labour board

Answer 37

- during WWI - 8 hour work day - during WWI production increased by 35% and real wages increased by 20% - union membership increased during the war going from 2.7 million to 5 million by 1920 - post war employers fired known union members and went on the offensive - increase in wages led to incease in trade unions in 1943 the president was empowerd to seize any plant where strike action threatended to intersrer with war production had to give 30 day notice of all strikes in 1941 ford finally recognised the auto workers union

Question 38

The brotherhood of the sleeping car porters

Answer 38

1925 i think

Question 39

welfare capatilism

Answer 39

1920s

Question 40

yellow dog contracts

Answer 40

1920s

Question 41

the red scare

Question 42

IWW

Question 43

NLU

Question 44

National industrial recovery act

Question 45

Social sercurity act

Question 46

Mephis sanitation strike

Answer 46

1968

Question 47

the effects of the 1970s deindustrialisation

Answer 47

1970

Question 48

Lochner v New York unconstitutionality of regulation of working conditions

Answer 48

- 1905 - unconstitutionality of regulation of working conditions - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) established and militant socialist unionism

Question 49

Hitchman Coal v Mitchell

Answer 49

1917 constitutionality of injunctions and yellow-dog contracts

Question 50

Hormel strike

Answer 50

1985 - permanent replacement workers

Question 51

Operation Dixi

Answer 51

1946

Question 52

CIO striked and unionization of autombile (GM) and steel (US steel)

Answer 52

1937

Question 53

National Labour Union (NLU)

Answer 53

1866 first national labour federation focused on 8-hour day

Question 54

when did Congress passed 8-hour day law for federal workers

Answer 54

1868

Question 55

great panic and depression causing unemploymenty

Answer 55

1873 1893

Question 56

Sherman act

Answer 56

1890 interstate commerce, interference with private enterprise declared illegal (applied to unions)

Question 57

union membersip in 1915

Answer 57

2.5 million