HIST-1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: National Labor Union, Samuel Gompers, William H. Sylvis
4 Feb 2020
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[growing importance of industrial labor in american society indicative of changing times in america; 1815 as the date representing the accelerated rise of industrial development industrial workers become increasingly important] **strong correlation between the growth of american industrialization and immigration. National labor union (1866: william sylvis (1828-1869, our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth this moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. Colored national labor union (1866) affiliate of national labor union. Isaac meyers (1835-1891) president of cnlu: recognition that there must be racial solidarity in labor unions/reform efforts. [trade unionism organization which implemented business unionism on a. Types of unionism: reform unionism, trade unionism, cheap john unionism, nosiness unionism, craft unionism. Types of organized labor: strike, lockout, sympathetic strike, strikebreaker.
