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| an organized association of workers, often in a trade or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests. |
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| places in the tenement buildings where the people lived that worked children and women for low wages and long hours and under poor conditions. |
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| both sides send representatives to negotiate |
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| both sides agree to a neutral judge to solve problem |
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| refuse to work until demands are met |
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| person hired to work in a striking worker’s place. |
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| Scab labor are strike breakers. The crew they bring in to take over when the original workers go on strike. |
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| court order forcing strikers to go back to work. |
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| was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s |
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| refers to organizing a labor union in a manner that seeks to unify workers in a particular industry along the lines of the particular craft or trade that they work in by class or skill level |
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| Unskilled and semi-skilled |
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| gov’t control of business and property + equal distribution of wealth. |
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| an economic system in which capital assets are privately owned and goods and services are produced for profit in a market economy |
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| a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical free associations |
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| May 4, 1887, 3,000 people gathered at Chicago’s Haymarket Square to protest police brutality during earlier strikes. The crowd was dispersing when police arrived, someone tossed a bomb into the police line, police fired on workers, 7 police killed and several workers died in the chaos. |
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| in 1893, Pullman laid off more than 3000 workers and cut wages of the rest of his employees. Workers had little $ to survive. A strike was called. Pullman refused to arbitrate. |
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| organized the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. |
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| Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was an Irish-American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer. She then helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World. |
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