US History › Section I · The West and big business › Topic I.7
Industrial labor and unions
Industrial growth created millions of wage-earning jobs that were long, dangerous and insecure. Workers organised in new ways, but employers, courts and governments defeated most of their great strikes before 1900.
In this topic
- A new working class
- Women, children and divided workers
- The weapons of employers
- Violence in the 1870s
- Worked example: why the 1877 strike spread and failed
- The National Labor Union and the Knights
- Haymarket, 1886
- Gompers and the AFL
- Homestead, 1892
- Worked example: how the Pullman boycott was broken
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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