Strike action

Labor unions have been a part of the American workforce since colonial times (Cussen, 2012). In their early forms, these unions were craft guilds and mutual aid societies composed of skilled craftsmen, with the aim to restrict entry into a craft and enforce workplace standards (Domhoff, n.d.). As the workplace became more industrialized and skilled labor replaced with mechanized, compartmentalized, lesser skilled workers, skilled craftsmen felt their livelihood threatened (Domhoff, n.d.).…

the frequent processions and movements. In 1886, a strike broke out in Chicago as the workers strive for the eight working hours per day. The dispute later turned into a violent confrontation where some explosions and gunshots occurred. It was believed a home-made metal bomb was ignited by a protestant and threw against the police. This incident led to the death of seven policemen and caused an untold number of injuries. Eight years later, a strike broke out again in Chicago as the railway…

Railroad Strike started on July 14 , 1877 in Martinsburg, West Virginia in response to the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. It’s also known as the Great Upheaval. The great railroad strike started after the Baltimore and Ohio cut wages of railroads and that was basically the biggest event that happened leading up to the great railroad strike. That’s the biggest reason why this strike happened and lots of people were unhappy with this strike. During the great railroad strike there was…

Class and Community is about the impact the industrial revolution and factory systems had on the small village of Lynn Massachusetts. It is an in depth view of Lynn shoemakers and their transition from life of preindustrial labor to their life after the industrial revolution and after the introduction of factory system labor. Alan Dawley’s purpose of the book was to point out the limits of class conflict and the corruptness of factory employers by describing the hardships the workers lived…

Welders are defined as a tradesperson who specializes in fusing materials together rather it be metals, steels, or certain plastics. A day in the life of a welder can be a tedious one or a relaxed one depending on what area of welding you choose to go into. There are production welders one that work in plants and manufacture parts or pieces on a production line. Construction welders usually these welders would have joined a union (boilermakers, pipefitters, etc.) and work on various…

Brian Luy History 109 February 29, 2016 How did the labor and women's movements expand the meanings of American freedom? Progressive Reformers wanted better working conditions. They had in mind to humanize industrial capitalism (Lecture/Text 738) Workers had to follow the specific working instructions given by their supervisors which led to many skilled workers seeing this as a loss of freedom. They wanted Industrial Freedom. (Text 738) Progressive Reformers believed that by giving workers the…

and/or religion. It was on July 2, 1965 that Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was a officially official. On the first day of the opening, a staff of a little over one hundred were met with nearly one thousand complaints of unlawful actions in the workplace. It was at the end of their first year that over eight thousand accusations were recorded. Because of the extreme amount of discrimination…

“The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.” – Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Before the 1909 strike where more than 20,000 garment shirtwaist makers walked out to picket for better wages and improved working conditions, there was the Lowell Mills women who organized to protest wage cuts in 1834 and again in 1836. The rebellious act of the Lowell Mills women was poignant, as it embarked a mass movement for workers’ rights in the United…

from the conditions they were forced to work in. He also wrote that “the brotherhood, in order to secure from the Pullman company better wages, better hours, better working conditions and union recognition had to resort to political action rather than economic action as a means of obtaining their objectives” (Posey, 1947 p.63). The BSCP sought out the government entities into forming a union that they could be a resource in getting them recognized. The railroads were part of the federal…

Larry Itliong became one of the most outspoken leaders for better working conditions and higher wages for Filipino workers. Andy Imutan, an original striker from the 1965 walkout stated, “ [Summer of 1965] Filipino workers went on a strike demanding that their wages be increased from $1.10 an hour as well as better living conditions.” Winning against the growers became more difficult when Mexican workers started replacing the Filipinos for labor, known as “crossing the pickets”, it…