AMH 2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Homestead Strike, Carnegie Steel Company, Deflation
14 Mar 2018
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Labeling certain workers as strikers or non-cooperative, so that they"re unable to find more work in their industry/trade if they decide to strike. Why were unions more of an inconvenience than a problem to business owners in the early. Because they could always just hire replacement workers. What was almost every union"s agenda during the early 1900"s? (3: an 8-hour/shorter work day, a safer workplace, higher wages. Most unions before 1900 were comprised of what kind of people (racial/gender. Courts would often rule that unions/strikers were guilty of What were the 3 major american strikes before 1900: the great railroad strike (1877, homestead steel strike (1892, pullman railroad strike (1894) Deflation was causing workers to receive lower wages. The workers then decided to go on strike and started destroying railroads. The president at the time, hayes, decided to send in federal troops to stop them. Carnegie steel wanted to cut workers" wages by 20% in order to suppress unionization.
