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Name: __________________
Class:___________________
LABOR UNION GUIDED NOTES
VOCABULARY:
a)
_________________- An organization of workers that is set
up to serve and advance its members’ interests in terms of wages,
benefits, and working hours and conditions
b)
__________________- To stop work in order to force an
employer to comply with demands
c)
__________________-workers that tried to organize a
union or a strike were fired and placed on a list of
“troublemakers” by employers
d)
__________________-technique used by employers to break
up a union ; locked workers out of the property and refused to pay
them
e)
__________________- workers hired to replace employees
on strike; also called strike breakers
f) Knights of Labor:
g) Haymarket Square Riot-
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h) Pullman Strike:
i) American Federation of Labor:
Question #1: How did Industrialization impact America’s Class Structure?
Answer:

It ______________a sense of belonging to a ___________

New Jobs!
o Upper Class: ______________________
o Middle Class:
____________________________________________________
o Lower Class: _________________________________________

New Products!
o
Question #2: Why did the Lower (working) class grow alienated?
Answer:
o Low _____________
o Bad ____________________
o Boring ________________
o Structured _________________
o Dangerous _____________________
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Question #3: Management vs. Labor
Tools of Management:
Tools of Labor:
Question #4: How did the working class protest the Bad Condition it Lived In?
o The working class formed ______________________
o #4a. National Labor Union
o
o
#4b. Knights of Labor
o Terrence Powderly
o Included _______________________ & ____________________
(Weakness)
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o Supported _________________and
________________________________________
o Divided on strikes- wanted to use ___________________instead
o Declined after
_________________________________________in 1886
#4c. American Federation Labor
o Samuel Gompers
o Concentrated on
_______________________&__________________ conditions
o _______________________________: skilled, white males
(strength)
o Used _______________as major tactic
o _________________________members by 1904
Question #5: How did management respond to the Labor Unions?
o Lockouts
o Blacklists
o Yellow ___________________
o Private ____________& State_____________
o Court _______________________
o Promoted idea that _______________were
_________________________and _______________________
PART II of Guided Notes To Be Continued ….
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