Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Labor Union Links


Unions:
AFL: Samuel Gompers

http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/gompers.cfm


IWW:
Industrial Workers of the World  (Wobblies)—Big Bill Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn



Knights of Labor: Uriah Stephens and Terrence Powderly


Strikes/Labor unrest

Pullman Strike:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=230


http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/pullman/events.html (AWESOME LINK--GOES THROUGH THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE EVENT—USE THIS!!!!)


Haymarket Square Riot:

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=227




Homestead Strike:

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/carnegie/strike.html

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