Chapter 14 History Alive Pursuing American

..., factoreies where emplyees are subjected to bad working conditions and get paid little money.

Business owners used this kind of labor because they could spend less on their salaries

An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

1886; founded by Samuel Gompers; sought better wages, hrs, working conditions; skilled laborers, arose out of dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor, rejected socialist and communist ideas, non-violent.

(1) moderate labor organization founded in 1869 by Terence Powderly, one of the first such organizations in the US; (2) this all-inclusive organization grew quickly but fell into decline after one of its leaders was executed for killing a policeman in the Haymarket Riot

An organized work stoppage intended to force an employer to address union demands.

A theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

Negotiations between representatives of labor unions and management to determine pay and acceptable working conditions

1886 incident that made unions, particularly the Knights of Labor, look violent because a bomb exploded during a protest of striking workers.

1892 steelworker strike near Pittsburgh against the Carnegie Steel Company. Ten workers were killed in a riot when "scab" labor was brought in to force an end to the strike.

in Chicago, Pullman cut wages but refused to lower rents in the "company town", Eugene Debs had American Railway Union refuse to use Pullman cars, Debs thrown in jail after being sued, strike achieved nothing

A person who seeks to overturn the established government; an advocate of abolishing authority