37:575:201 Study Guide - International Brotherhood Of Teamsters, Stevedore, Andy Stern
29 Oct 2014
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A) started in paterson nj: water power needed to power factory, paterson nj has great falls. 3. union movement a) craft unionism a) structure today is the same as it was 100 150 years ago: focused on individual craft b) one big union, socialist seeking to change capitalism c) industrial union unionize skilled and unskilled. 10% blacks j) goal create one large cooperative: abolish , end to capitalism k) time line founded in 1869. 1880 1886 rising membership l) strikes assemblies start to strike on their own: winning strikes. 2. 5 million members in unions uniting the labor movement m)creating city assemblies. State federations of labor n) 1886 chicago: heymarket square, want 8 hour workday and halfday on saturday anarchists infiltrate and throw bomb at police, killing 2 police. 6. paterson strike lasted 5 ? months a) companies were still able to hold operations in pa b) citywide strike of 26,000 workers c) iww loss.
