Strikebreaker

Migration, however, caused many conflicts in housing and the workplace. White resistance and hostility increased as blacks began invading the North. “The workplace became a terrain of competition and conflict” (320) as black laborers were used as strikebreakers, which “added fuel to social antagonism in the neighborhoods” (322). Homes of African Americans were bombed in order to push them out of white communities, such as Hyde Park and Washington Park. White homeowners attempted to offset the…

Throughout our history, men and women have fought for a racially inclusive future, joining together to demand a more just America. Leaders like Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Dubois, and Martin Luther King Jr. looked at unions as the key to African American workers to achieve equality, knowing the labor movement could not be whole without the participation of black workers. The history of race and the working class in the United States begins with African American workers in the South. When African…

had fallen in the street when on strike get some comfortable clothes on and food in her stomach, her malicious father, in despise of those who were immigrants, kicks the girl out into the cold and dark streets and sends Jane to her room. “Hiring strikebreakers, hurting people, probably starving them too။” (Haddix 197). This comment from Jane that was directed towards her father settled the conflict with a tense ending of running out the door into the snowy weather and going to the Kensington’s…

1. What actions did President Roosevelt and Congress take to prevent the collapse of the banking system and reform its operations? Shortly after taking office, President Roosevelt went straight to work on preventing the complete collapse of the American banking system. Not even a week after taking office, Roosevelt forced banks to take a holiday, which suspended all bank operations, and called a meeting with Congress. On March 9, 1933, only five days after becoming President, Roosevelt and…

The progressive movement was carried on the backs of middle-class citizens. These were people who were white-collar professionals, usually women deeply rooted in Christianity. The Progressive movement supported things like: scientific efficiency, political and economic reform, and social/civil justice for the working class. In his book, Triangle, David Von Drehle walks the reader through a detailed journey of New York City in the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. Conveniently, it is not long before…

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was made in 1940. Plot The narrative begins just after Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison for homicide. On his return to his home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Tom meets former preacher Jim Casy, whom he remembers from his childhood, and the two travel together. When they…

The Big Four companies broke the strike by bringing in strikebreakers replacements for those on strike. The editor of Appeal to Reason suggested that Sinclair write a novel about the strike. Sinclair prowled the streets of Chicago’s Packingtown, the residential district next to the stockyards and packing plants…

One of the strike methods used was disrupting the flow of energy. They accomplished this by working more slowly and clumsily, and after 3 days they won their demand for increased wages. The companies responded to these claims by having strikebreakers, military force, and creating company unions. These company unions ensured that the workers could express their issues to the company union, but they could not join force with any other strike union. This saved the companies from having large…

Ever since the founding of this country, the Americans have worked to strive to become something greater. One of the key components that this country focused was the idea of “freedom”. This proves, later on, to be one the most controversial ideas because there is nobody out there that can state the perfect amount of freedom that should be given in order to main peace and harmony. Even before the disputes with labor and management in the industrial era, there has been a problem regarding the…

lately returned from the war only to find themselves in competition for jobs and housing. In late July more than 250,000 workers in Chicago were either on strike, about to strike, or locked out.(McWhirter, p. 120) The administration hired black strikebreakers to work the these jobs during this period. Union white workers of all ethnicities attacked nonunion black workers in bloody battles, Black workers re-sponded by forming their own battle union called, the “Wilson Efficiency Club” for their…