CH. 13 Industrialization and The Rise of Organized Labor

Unions

An organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals

Knights of Labor

A single national union of all skilled and unskilled workers wanted 8 hour work days, better pay, and safer conditions.

Homestead Strike

Union workers battled Pinkerton guards, 9 people were killed

Pinkerton Guards

Hired Security used by many wealthy businessmen to break up striking workers

Henry Clay Frick - Jerk

Industrialist, union buster who hired the Pinkerton's at homestead

The American Railway Union

A union welcomed all railroad workers

Eugene V. Debs

Socialist who founded the American railway union. leader of the Pullman strike

Pullman Strike

a nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11th to July 20th 1894 and was a turning point for US Labor law

American Federation of Labor

A nation federation of labor unions founded in Columbus Ohio in Dec. 1886 by an alliance of craft unions.

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Established in 1905, they Organized unskilled factory workers, farm workers, miners and loggers, immigrants minorities, women, and unemployed used strikes to achieve there goals

Hay market Riot

Violent not that set back Labor unions

Laissez-Faire Policies

A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course without interfering

Andrew Carnegie 

Building Powerful steel empires