Strikebreaker

equation, there are tactics employed to counter act or prevent the union members from interfering with operations while an impasse is in effect. A few of those management tactics are utilizing a lockout of employees from the business, or hiring strikebreakers to offset the effects of a union strike (Ebert 162). These practices are not decisions to be taken lightly by management, as they can have lasting effects, such as lowering moral in the workplace even after the conclusion of an…

Sometimes success is written in your faith but more likely than others success comes with an unfair advantage. The Gilded Age occurred from 1870-1900, the period after the civil war. During the Gilded Age the United States had large growth in fortune and economics. The worded “gilded” means gold and during this era there was a lot of fortune accumulated. Overall during this time period the United States has a lot of gain but also faced an ers with ongoing social issues. Andrew Carnegie, John D.…

“Mass production and business consolidations spawned giant corporations that monopolized nearly every sector of the U.S. economy in the decades after the Civil War.” I think this sentence from the book summarizes the economy of post war America. Many great things came from industrialization but it caused problems for your every day working americans. They struggled to make ends meet and their working condition didn’t help. They were treated like inter changeable parts by their employers. The…

“The external glitter of wealth conceals a corrupt political core that reflects the growing gap between very few rich, and the very many poor”-Mark Twain. This quote sums up the political, economic, and social relations between the employer and the employee which were strained, and was often devised to benefit the manufacturer during the Gilded Age. Employers were exploiting worker by providing them low wages, exacerbating unsafe working conditions, and providing inadequate benefits to their…

created a group of people that were armed made up of more than 2,000 volunteers. The group members armed with shotguns and rode St. Louis Transit cars and made fun of the horse-drawn buses operated by strikers. Many restaurants refused to serve strikebreakers. More than 8,000 members of 28 unions joined 3,300 strikers in parade on May 19, but Edwards Whitaker, St. Louis Transit president, refused to meet with the Railway Employees Union. On June 10, a column of strikers was marching past the…

Mary Harris “Mother” Jones was a commanding and influential person in American history. Characteristically clad in a black dress, the five-feet tall Mother Jones was a daring warrior for workers’ rights to the point of being branded "the most dangerous woman in America". A fearless radical and a skilled orator, Mother Jones inspired everyone from mineworkers to children to action for better living and working conditions. Born in 1837 in Ireland to a family of freedom fighters, Mary Harris…

on strike. The interim executive (Carnegie was in Europe), Henry Clay Frick, had fired the workers, evicted them from their homes, and said the only way to get both back was to apply individually. He would no longer deal with labor unions. When strikebreakers were brought in, an altercation ensued between them and the unionists; sixteen men were killed. Across the nation, civilians ands newspapers alike sympathized with the…

Worker felt that the whole situation was unfair, so in hope of obtaining justice they began to strike. Strikes were starting to break out frequently, so businesses took precautionary measures of their own hiring strikebreakers to break up the conflict. Many businesses and their owners assumed that the workers would eventually come to their senses. Eventually workers would get hungry, they will have to support their families somehow, and they need a job to economically…

WOMAN WORKERS During the first world war women entered the U.S. labor force largely to fill spots left by men who went off to fight. They took jobs from being office clerks to working on the rail road; women did what they could to help out the war effort. Before and after the war women were working in factories, offices, stores, or anywhere they could find a job. Daily they had to fight sex segregation and stereotyping from their male counterparts. Man still believed that the woman's place was…

One was the Homestead Strike of 1892 within one of Andrew Carnegie’s Steel plants located near Pittsburgh. The manager Henry Clay Frick incited the strike by cutting wages 20%. Frick used tactics such as “the lockout, private guards, and strikebreakers” to crush the strike after a mere five months. The Pullman strike of 1894 was in response to George Pullman cutting wages in his model company and firing leaders that came to bargain with him. The workers at Pullman stopped working and were…