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Bookmark or Share- National Labor Movement: Success & Challenges in US HistoryExplore the efforts to organize a national labor movement in America. From early struggles to landmark achievements, delve into the historical journey of American labor.
- Labor Movement ‑ America, Reform & Timeline - HISTORYThe labor movement led efforts to stop child labor, give health benefits and provide aid to workers who were injured or retired.
- Labor movement | sociology | BritannicaWorkers increasingly organized on their own despite the fact that new laws banned craft organizations and outlawed unions and strikes. Some workers attacked the reliance on machinery in the name of older, more humane traditions of work. Luddite protests of this sort began in Britain…
- Labor History Timeline: 1607 – 1999 - Social Welfare History ProjectFrom the earliest days of the American colonies, when apprentice laborers in Charleston, S.C., went on strike for better pay in the 1700s, to the first formal union of workers in 1829 who sought to reduce their time on the job to 60 hours a week, our nation’s working people have recognized that joining together is the most effective means of imp...
- Civil Rights and the Labor Movement: A Historical OverviewThe history of the labor movement is a rich, long, and complicated one as well. The labor movement, once an obstacle to black economic advancement, is now an ally of the civil rights movement. Black workers – and other minority workers – refused to accept the labor movement’s racial bars.
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