AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Making Money, Grover Cleveland, Homestead Strike
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Growth of the labor movement: america"s workers begin to fight back. Hours: 10-12 hours a day, 6 days a week. A worker could barely survive this if they never took a day off or got hurt all year long workers easily replaceable. Keep making money and don"t let the workers organize. That way workers don"t know how much each other makes. Lot easier to say no to an individual. Workers could be fired if they joined a union or any other organization the company didn"t like. Only a yellow dog would sign his freedom away for a job. Management refuses to allow the workers to work until they got what they wanted. Hiring scab workers, usually blacks or immigrants, to keep the factories going through lockouts. Propaganda: the worst thief is the one who steals playtime from children. Strike: refusal to work, main tactic of unskilled workers. Merged with cio in 1955 to form afl-cio.
