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Textile Mills In The South
2,754 words... ted the TWUA was forced into submission by tricky lawmakers, the strike was ended with none of the original resolutions met (Hall 214). Soon afterward, another violent strike broke out in Gaston County North Carolina. Gaston County epitomized the phenomenal wartime growth of the southern textile industry, as well as its postwar instability (Hall 214). This was the most violent and well known strike in the history of the textile workers battle. The strike ended with the police chief dead, a l...
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Ny Times Federal Troops
1,401 wordsOn July 16 th several firemen and brakemen on The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad refused to work the trains and caused a massive buildup of train traffic in Camden Junction just outside of Baltimore. The strikers gave their reason for striking; a 10 percent wage cut taking affect that day. (NY Times) The strikers overtook trains and there was even a report of a beating taking place of a fireman who continued to work. The company had been prepared for a strike and a force of 40 police officers was s...
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The General Strike Of 1926
1,224 wordster> Why did the General Strike of 1926 fail and what were the effects the strike had upon industrial relations in Britain? The General Strike of 1926 lasted only nine days and directly involved around 1. 8 million workers. It was the short but ultimate outbreak of a much longer conflict in the mining industry, which lasted from the privatisation of the mines after the First World War until their renewed nationalisation after the Second. The roots of the General Strike in Brita...
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The General Strike Of 1926
1,198 words... off the General Strike did they realised that they had nothing in their hands. While the miners were left to fight alone until their humiliating defeat in November 1926, the other workers re-turned to work where they faced their strengthened employers. In some trades, such as railways and printing, work-ers suffered widespread victimisation. The real extent of victimisation, however, is very difficult to estimate be-cause besides the dismissal of militants and the replacement of workers by v...
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Federal Troops Labor Force
1,042 wordsEverything seemed so perfect. Pullman, Illinois was a company town on the outskirts of Chicago, founded in 1880 by George Pullman, president of the railroad sleeping car company. Pullman advertised his town as a model community that included everything from parks to libraries and was filled with satisfied, well paid workers. Each resident worked for the Pullman company, which manufactured railroad cars, and by 1894 it operated "first class" sleeping cars on almost every one of the nation's major...
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Boeing Speea Strike Case Study
691 wordsWhen the word union or strike comes to mind, it is generally a vision of the typical industrial, assembly line worker. With this strike in particular, it is quite the opposite. The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) is among the brightest and smartest people in the country. Typically, these are not the type of people that generally strike. They held the longest white-collar strike in U. S. history; which started on February 9, 2000, and ended on March 19, 2000. Th...
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Labour Movement Forced Labour
1,598 words... Chafer (2002), the first large-scale strike movement that took place soon after the war was ended, was the general strike that occurred in Dakar and Saint-Louis. This was the strike of 14 - 16 January 1946, which "mobilized between 15, 000 and 20, 000 workers in both the public and private sectors, from educated Africans working for the government to manual labourers working in the docks (Chafer, 2002, p. 68). The two major group that took place in this strike were school teachers and railwa...
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Consolidate His Power Che Guevara
3,826 wordsThe idea that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a peasant revolution or had a peasant character is avidly held misconception, one which has been dispersed by the rebels post-revolutionary rhetoric and the wealth of sympathetic knowledge which based its interpretation of the revolution upon this propaganda. To assign an event as complex as the Cuban Revolution any particular nature is a drastic simplification and confuses the many factors which led to the revolution and its victory. Being the prot...
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Consolidate His Power Che Guevara
4,060 wordsThe Peasantry and the Urban Underground In the Cuban Revolution The idea that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a peasant revolution or had a peasant character is a widely held misconception, one which has been propagated by the rebels post-revolutionary rhetoric and the wealth of sympathetic scholarship which based its interpretation of the revolution upon this propaganda. To assign an event as complex as the Cuban Revolution any particular nature is a drastic oversimplification and confounds th...
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Taft Hartley Act National Labor Relations
1,487 wordsBeginning in 1866 until the present time many labor leaders have initiated many effective and important labor laws. Throughout the past one hundred plus years there have been many steps forward in the labor movement along with a few major steps back. The actions of these labor leaders and the accomplishments of the acts that they have helped to pass have paved the way for the American worker in todays society. One of the labor laws that had an impact was the Taft-Hartley Act. The Taft-Hartley ac...
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Trade Union Movement First World War
2,437 wordsThe General Strike of 1926 Essay written by Michael Funk Why did the General Strike of 1926 fail and what were the effects the strike had upon industrial relations in Britain? The General Strike of 1926 lasted only nine days and directly involved around 1. 8 million workers. It was the short but ultimate outbreak of a much longer conflict in the mining industry, which lasted from the privatisation of the mines after the First World War until their renewed nationalisation after the Second. The ro...
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Sherman Anti Trust Taft Hartley Act
4,886 wordsThe Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into cloth would be driven by water power. All that the factory owners needed was a dependable supply of labor to tend the machines. As most jobs in cotton factories required neither great strength nor special skills, the owners thought women cou...
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Air Traffic Controllers Afl Cio
3,085 wordsRunning head: POST-PATCO ERA VS. UPS AND THE TEAMSTER Post-PATCO era vs. UPS and The Teamsters? Labor Movement Tonya D. Moore University of Sarasota Abstract Professional Air Traffic Controller Organization (PATCO) captivated Americans in its unsuccessful struggle to win the labor movement. The exposure during that period left a decline in any type of union struggle. In 1997, United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS) went on a similar movement that took a different turn for American laborers. The result...
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Westport Ct Greenwood Sherman Anti Trust
5,168 wordsBy Ira Peck (Scholastic Inc. ) The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. At Lowell, Massachusetts, the construction of a big cotton mill began in 1821. It was the first of several that would be built there in the next 10 years. The machinery to spin and weave cotton into cloth would be driven by water power. All that the factory owners needed was a dependable supply of labor to tend the machines. As most jobs in cotton factories required neither great strength nor special skill...
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