Labor Unions and Leaders
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Workers organizing for power
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Knights of Labor
1869 union for all workers (skilled/unskilled, women, minorities); declined after Haymarket
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
1886 union for skilled workers only; "bread and butter" focus
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Samuel Gompers
AFL founder; wanted practical gains, not revolution
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Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
1905 radical "one big union" to overthrow capitalism
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Eugene Debs
Socialist leader of Pullman Strike & IWW; jailed for opposing WWI
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