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Workers (everything) Flashcards

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

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1866

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Knights of Labour

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

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Great Railroad strike

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1877
- pitsburg?
- federal intevention
- injuction and troops

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The Haymarket riots

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1886

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AFL (American Federation of Labour)

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1886
- 2 miilion memebrs by 1914
- skilled workers

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Louisiana Sugar cane strike

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1887

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Homestead strike

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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

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Pullman strike

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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

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In Re Debs

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

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Coal strike

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

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WWI (NWLB)

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1914

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12
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the great steel strike

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1919

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National recovery administration (NRA)

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1933

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The first new deal

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1933

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The 1934 strikes

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  • 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
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Wagner act

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1935
- pressure applied by the 1934 strike bring about the act
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CIO

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

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SSA

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

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National labour relations board (NLRB)

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1935

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the second new deal

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1935-36

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GM sit down strike

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1936

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Memorial day massacre

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1937

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FLSA, fair labour standards act

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

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WWII

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1939

25
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Fair employment practice committee

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

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union membership by 1945

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  • 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
27
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Taft - Hartly act

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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

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AFL - CIO merger

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1955

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Ececutive order 10988

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1962

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Chavez and the UFW (united farm workers)

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1966

31
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Great postal strike

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1970

32
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Reagan Presidency and the PACTO strike

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1981

33
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Phelps Dodge

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34
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Philip Randolph

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  • founded the brotherhood of the sleeping car porters in 1925 I belive
35
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Bussiness unions V industrial unions

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36
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Debs vs US

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37
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National war labour board

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  • 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
38
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The brotherhood of the sleeping car porters

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1925 i think

39
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welfare capatilism

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1920s

40
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yellow dog contracts

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1920s

41
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the red scare

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42
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IWW

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43
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NLU

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44
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National industrial recovery act

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45
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Social sercurity act

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46
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Mephis sanitation strike

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1968

47
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the effects of the 1970s deindustrialisation

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1970

48
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Lochner v New York unconstitutionality of regulation of working conditions

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  • 1905
  • unconstitutionality of regulation of working conditions
  • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) established and militant socialist unionism
49
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Hitchman Coal v Mitchell

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1917
constitutionality of injunctions and yellow-dog contracts

50
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Hormel strike

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1985
- permanent replacement workers

51
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Operation Dixi

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1946

52
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CIO striked and unionization of autombile (GM) and steel (US steel)

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1937

53
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National Labour Union (NLU)

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1866
first national labour federation focused on 8-hour day

54
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when did Congress passed 8-hour day law for federal workers

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1868

55
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great panic and depression causing unemploymenty

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1873
1893

56
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Sherman act

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

57
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union membersip in 1915

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2.5 million

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