LABOR UNION AND LABOR UNREST RESEARCH LINKS

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Labor union links

Unions:

AFL: Samuel Gompers

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=835

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

http://www.ushistory.org/us/37d.asp

Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/industrial_workers_of_the_world_iww_/

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1050.html

Centralia Massacre

Strikes/Labor unrest

1. Great Strike of 1877

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3189

http://www.ranknfile-ue.org/uen_1877.html

http://libcom.org/history/articles/us-rail-strikes-1877

2. Pullman Strike:

http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1029.html

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

3. Haymarket Square Riot:

Use this as your main source:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/e_haymarket.html

Haymarket Eight:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/sfeature/sf_haymarket.html

4. Homestead Strike:

Use this link as your primary source of information:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3194