General strike

happened upon easily. Matthew Josephson uses great examples in the Robber Barons. Of some of the battles Unions took on during the Industrial war. Citing the big Carnegie steel works known as Homestead as the most spectacular. According to Josephson this strike shows the utter spirit of the works at this time and pure greed of the “Captains of…

Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. His father Will Carnegie, his mother Margaret, and his younger brother Tom immigrated to united State as a penniless immigrant seeking for a better future after his father faced an economic burden due to the advance of mechanization. They settled in Allegheny city, a suburb of Pittsburg where Carnegie’s mother had relatives. At the age of thirteen, Carnegie started his first job as a bobbin boy to help his family survive.…

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Collective agreement. That’s the biggest separation between union and non-union work places. Employee’s who work under a non-unionized work environment are subject to being employed under “management conditions.” They have no legal protections about the conditions in which they were hired, so if a manager changes his/her mind about the terms and conditions of the employment your subject to those changes. Where as in a unionized work environment you have set terms and conditions in which you were…

because they were created for those who worked on farms and in the fields and in factories and not for those who work in corporate America today. It may also be said that no one hardly strikes any more, and the ones that do does not have any victories for the workers. Others may say that the decline of the strike and the loss of members has reduced the effectiveness of the existing unions. Let us not look at the negative aspects of unions but let us focus on the positive impact of the…

In 1892, the Homestead (steel) Strike occurred, which involved skilled worker at Carnegie steel mill, where jobs were becoming more and more automated, and Carnegie was able to hire less workers for lower wages, almost as if the workers were competing with a machine for a job. For 92…

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the states, people, and especially workers that were directly affected by the monstrous railroad companies lost their input on controlling them. The federal government also exercised its power to restore peace by halting strikes and riots with military might; the Homestead Strike at one of Andrew Carnegie’s steel plants ended with federal troops storming to the scene to put an end to the pandemonium. These displays of military strength were only intended to protect the large corporations.…

able to organize. In times such as these, government legislation and policy could be regarded as having a negative consequence for unions, but considering history and how certain laws were essential building blocks and pathways for organization, in general they endeavor to balance power between pro and non-union…

Philosophy 2400 Zhiyuan Li Is the general will always right? In November 2014, China released a draft amendment to its Criminal Law, including exempting nine crimes from the death penalty. However, a considerable number of people almost immediately expressed their strong disagreement on lightening punishment for those crimes and asked for the most severe punishment instead. If we regard reducing death penalty crimes as the general will, or what is best for the whole society, the opponents might…